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Statins Aid Slow Learners, Nature news
 









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Statins can sharpen the mind of a slow learning mouse.
Credit Weidong Li / David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 

 


Cholesterol-busting drugs help mice with learning disability.
There's a new lesson to be learned about statins, a class of widely prescribed
drugs that lower cholesterol. A study in mice suggests that this type of
medication could reverse a learning disorder known as neurofibromatosis.
The disorder, also called NF1, affects about 1 in every 4,000 children and can
cause learning disabilities, coordination problems and benign tumours that grow
on nerve tissue. Researchers have found that mutations in a single gene are to
blame for NF1.
Source: Statins Aid Slow Learners[
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051107/full/051107-4.html ], Roxanne Khamsi,
DOI: 10.1038/news051107-4, Nature news, 05/11/08

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