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02-27-2007, 09:23 AM
Denise Gellene
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Lab mice with the mental retardation of Down syndrome became 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 an avenue for research in a field that had had little success...
http://www.dispatch.com/health/health.php?story=dispatch/2007/02/27/20070227-A5-00.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Lab mice with the mental retardation of Down syndrome became 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 an avenue for research in a field that had had little success...
http://www.dispatch.com/health/health.php?story=dispatch/2007/02/27/20070227-A5-00.html