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  • Alzheimer's drug may be poison antidote - study (maybe for nerve agents)

    08/07/2006 7:33:14 PM PDT · by neverdem · 5 replies · 462+ views
    Reuters ^ | Aug 7, 2006 | Maggie Fox
    Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - An Alzheimer's pill that helps slow the brain damage caused by the disease may also protect against the effects of nerve gases and pesticides, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They said the drug, marketed under the name Reminyl and Razadyne, completely protected guinea pigs against the nerve agents soman and sarin, as well as toxic amounts of pesticides. They gave the animals high doses of the poisons and treated them with Reminyl, known generically as galantamine, along with atropine, often given as an antidote for organophospate pesticides such as paraoxon. "To...
  • Alzheimer's drug 'a poison antidote'

    08/07/2006 3:02:29 PM PDT · by WmShirerAdmirer · 6 replies · 572+ views
    The Australian ^ | August 8, 2006 | Australian correspondents in Washington
    An Alzheimer's pill that helps slow the brain damage caused by the disease may also protect against the effects of nerve gases and pesticides, US researchers reported today. They said the drug, marketed under the name Reminyl and Razadyne, completely protected guinea pigs against the nerve agents soman and sarin, as well as toxic amounts of pesticides. They gave the animals high doses of the poisons and treated them with Reminyl, known generically as galantamine, along with atropine, often given as an antidote for organophosphate pesticides such as paraoxon. "To our amazement, the animals treated with galantamine behaved as if...