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Article: Sea Anemone Toxin Halts Experimental Disease.(Brief Article)
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- December 10, 2001
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2001 DEC 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sea anemones use venom to stun their prey, but one component of that venom halts - and may reverse - the paralysis seen in an experimental form of multiple sclerosis, according to a study by University of California at Irvine's College of Medicine and the University of Marseilles, France.
If the findings conducted on rats prove effective in humans, they could result in a new class of drug treatments for multiple sclerosis, one of the most common diseases of the nervous system, known for its devastating and progressive loss of sensation and function. The study appears in the November 20, 2001, issue of the Proceedings of ...