by DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) Credit: DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) The research team led by Professor Minseok Kim from the Department of New Biology at DGIST (President Yang Kuk) has developed a technology that can treat Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, an incurable hereditary disease, with electric stimulation instead of drug...
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For first time, potential treatment path becomes clear for subtype of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Scripps Research scientists discover a way to stop a problematic enzyme from wreaking havoc on peripheral nervous system cells. SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LA JOLLA, CA – An unexpected finding from the Scripps Research laboratory of Xiang-Lei Yang, PhD, has illuminated a potential strategy for treating the inherited neurological disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), for which there is...
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Possible treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease discovered
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is the most common hereditary neuropathy and affects more than 2 million people worldwide. Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine and the University Medical Center of Göttingen now hope to use lecithin, a harmless dietary supplement, to treat the incurable illness. Compared to healthy rats (left), rats with the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (central)...