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Chronic Administration of Pimozide Fails to Attenuate Motor and Pathological Deficits in Two Mouse Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics - 1 Jul 2018
Pozzi Silvia, Thammisetty Sai Sampath, Julien Jean-Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease which presently does not have any efficient therapeutic approach. Pimozide, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved neuroepileptic drug, has been recently proposed as a promising treatment for ALS patients based on apparent stabilization of right hand muscles after a short-time administration. A new clinical trial started at the end of...
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