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Transplant drug may ease disorder linked to autism

25 June 2008

A DRUG that prevents immune rejection in human transplant patients has improved the memory of mice with a hereditary learning disorder. The finding suggests the disorder is a result of reversible abnormalities in brain chemistry rather than irreversible differences in architecture, as was previously assumed.

is a genetic disease that causes memory and learning problems. The drug is known to interact with an enzyme that makes proteins needed for memory – as well as suppressing immune cells – so and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, wondered if it might have…

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