An old drug plays a new trick

Hartmut Wekerle () and Edgar Meinl
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Hartmut Wekerle: Hartmut Wekerle is in the Hertie Senior Professor Group, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.
Edgar Meinl: Edgar Meinl is at the Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, LMU Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.

Nature, 2013, vol. 502, issue 7471, 314-315

Abstract: A drug already used to treat Parkinson's disease induces repair of the damage that occurs to the myelin sheath around nerve fibres during multiple sclerosis. The finding offers new therapeutic avenues for this disease. See Article p.327

Date: 2013
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