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Mice Get Smarter With Drug
LA Times.com ^
| 2-26-07
| Denise Gellene
Posted on 02/26/2007 11:16:09 AM PST by freeplancer
Lab mice with the mental retardation of Down syndrome got smarter after being fed a drug that strengthened brain circuits involved in learning and memory, researchers reported Sunday.
After receiving once-daily doses of pentylenetetrazole, or PTZ, for 17 days, the mice could recognize objects and navigate mazes as well as normal mice did, researchers said. The improvements lasted up to two months after the drug was discontinued, according to the report in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Scientists said the study opened a promising avenue for research in a field that had seen little success.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: downsyndrome; drugs; mice; smarter
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Flowers for Algernon anyone?
To: freeplancer
Damn you for beating me to it - although since it was your original post, it would have been quite a trick for me to get in before you ;)
To: freeplancer
Maybe more like Flowers for Alzheimer's, I hope.
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posted on
02/26/2007 11:18:43 AM PST
by
manic4organic
(Send a care package through USO today.)
To: freeplancer
That was my first thought, also.
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posted on
02/26/2007 11:20:32 AM PST
by
irishtenor
(Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
To: freeplancer
Mice Get Smarter With Drug
...and women get prettier with beer.
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posted on
02/26/2007 11:21:13 AM PST
by
HOTTIEBOY
(HUNTER: "I don't have to hire a consultant to develop a conservative image, I am a conservative.")
To: HOTTIEBOY
I always think I'm prettier with beer.
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posted on
02/26/2007 11:22:06 AM PST
by
altura
To: freeplancer
But what happens when they give the drug to the wrong mouse.
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posted on
02/26/2007 11:27:20 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Samoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.)
To: HOTTIEBOY
Any woman with a beer is automatically pretty - as long as she's bringing it to me.
To: freeplancer
To: freeplancer
Actually my first thought was "Charly"
To: freeplancer
Sure would be great if we could find some way to sneak this PTZ stuff into the nation's water supply around the beginning of November next year!
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posted on
02/26/2007 11:59:29 AM PST
by
leilani
To: leilani
Sure would be great if we could find some way to sneak this PTZ stuff into the nation's water supply around the beginning of November next year!
I'd like to try it on Congress RIGHT NOW!
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posted on
02/26/2007 12:10:55 PM PST
by
NearlyNormal
(Our military wins wars, the liberals and their MSM lose them.)
To: NearlyNormal
I'd like to try it on Congress RIGHT NOW!
Do you realize how dangerous Congress would be if they actually had the ability to think?
NO, stupid criminals are always to be preferred.
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posted on
02/26/2007 12:19:18 PM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
To: Dr.Zoidberg
NO, stupid criminals are always to be preferred.
OK, I'll bite ... what's the difference between a Democrat and a "stupid criminal"?
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posted on
02/26/2007 12:24:34 PM PST
by
NearlyNormal
(Our military wins wars, the liberals and their MSM lose them.)
To: freeplancer
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posted on
02/26/2007 12:38:18 PM PST
by
dangerdoc
(dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
To: GoforBroke
Actually my first thought was "Charly" "Charly" was based on "Flowers For Algernon".
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posted on
02/26/2007 12:41:50 PM PST
by
3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: 3niner
A realization I had in later years.
To: NearlyNormal
what's the difference between a Democrat and a "stupid criminal"?
An election?
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posted on
02/26/2007 1:06:48 PM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
To: freeplancer
I was going to sugguest giving them to Hildabeast.
To: freeplancer
Move over Marilyn vos Savant.
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posted on
02/26/2007 1:09:23 PM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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