[Research] breakthrough in cancer and epilepsy treatments

[BIGMAN131307]

Australian researchers make breakthrough in cancer and epilepsy treatments

AUSTRALIAN scientists could be trialling breakthrough treatments for cancer and epilepsy in five years after finding a way to block a protein that decides what gets through cell walls.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...lepsy-treatments/story-fneuzlbd-1227009117764

They are studying a protein called dynamin that acts as a guardian of the cell wall and plays a role in the process of deciding whether viruses and infections can breach the cell.

Dynamin is produced in the brain and also participates in over-firing of brain signals, a phenomenon seen in patients with epilepsy.

Professor Robinson believes that by controlling dynamin it might be possible to control the release of neurotransmitters that cause epileptic fits.

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So basically they want to control this protein to prevent "over firing" of brain signals.
Which would hopefully prevent seizures.

 

[Bernard]

Another chemical produced in the brain that inhibits seizures? Sounds like NPY. Hopefully the docs get enough funding to test this further.