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To: marthemaria

Another, DIFFERENT drug for Alzheimers, shows promise:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2847866/posts


6 posted on 02/17/2012 8:32:54 AM PST by kidd
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To: kidd; marthemaria
All great news. Notice that these drugs act directly on your genes causing them to turn on, or turn off, or operate faster, or slower ~ which should give everyone some idea of where we are going next in medicine.

Successful diabetic drugs ALSO have this characteristic ~ they turn on or off genes in the nucleus or in the mitochondria.

9 posted on 02/17/2012 8:39:13 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: kidd; marthemaria
All great news. Notice that these drugs act directly on your genes causing them to turn on, or turn off, or operate faster, or slower ~ which should give everyone some idea of where we are going next in medicine.

Successful diabetic drugs ALSO have this characteristic ~ they turn on or off genes in the nucleus or in the mitochondria.

10 posted on 02/17/2012 8:39:28 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: kidd; marthemaria

That drug, bexarotene (Eisai’s Targretin) can be taken orally.


14 posted on 02/17/2012 8:42:20 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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