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HNF RESEARCH ARTICLES

Blocking Gene May Help Slow Progression of Charcot Marie Tooth Disease Type 2
Issue date: 
08/04/2009
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by Terri Eickel

Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis identified a gene that they think may be involved in triggering neuropathy due to injury. 

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Pharma Company Teams with Biotech Company to Develop Drug Treatments for CMT
Issue date: 
06/15/2009
Author Name: 
Terri Eickel

An exciting partnership was announced on June 15 by Ipsen, a pharmaceutical company, and Pharnext SAS, a biopharmaceutical company. 

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New Research Disproves 15-Year-Old Theory
Issue date: 
05/03/2009
Author Name: 
Teresa Eickel

A long-time belief about the role of proteins in nervous system development was recently disproved by a team of researchers at the University of Missouri. This new discovery will assist researchers in understanding different neurological diseases, especially Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, type 2E.

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Stem Cell Research Gets Green Light
Issue date: 
04/13/2009
Author Name: 
Christy Casamassima

In a stunning announcement, researchers announced that a promising therapy developed at UC Irvine that made paralyzed rats walk again will become the world's first embryonic stem cell treatment tested in humans. Immediately after the announcement, scores of people with CMT chimed in on various CMT forums and expressed their excitement that stem cell treatments are now in the pipeline that could ultimately help people with Charcot Marie Tooth.

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Two Intriguing Studies: Axonal Loss & Pain Relief for Neuropathies
Issue date: 
03/26/2009
Author Name: 
Christy Casamassima

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have made an interesting discovery that could one day lead to therapeutic strategies for neurological diseases characterized by axonal loss, such as Charcot Marie Tooth disease.
 
Researchers at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, have discovered that use of anticonvulsant drugs may help alleviate the pain associated with neuromuscular diseases, including CMT.

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Vitamin B6: Too Much of a Good Thing!
Issue date: 
03/11/2009
Author Name: 
Christy Casamassima

The thing about vitamins is that despite all the ads touting their benefits, not all of them are good for us; indeed, in large doses, some can actually be quite toxic to our systems. Such is the case with megadoses of the vitamin B6. In a December report from the Department of Neurology at the University of Ulm in Germany, researchers evaluated a patient with severe sensorimotor neuropathy after intake of highest dosages of vitamin B6.

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Old as You Feel: Seniors Report Feeling 13 Years Younger than They Are
Issue date: 
03/04/2009
Author Name: 
Christy Casamassima

If you’re an octagenarian, but feel like you’re still in your sixties, you’re in good company. According to a study to appear in the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, older people tend to feel 13 years younger than their chronological age.

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Antioxidant Products Don’t Live Up to The Hype
Issue date: 
01/27/2009
Author Name: 
Christy Casamassima

Despite all the articles touting the benefits of substances with “anti-aging” or antioxidant properties, a research study out of England now says that these so-called miracle products—foods, vitamin supplements and beauty items that claim to prevent aging by eliminating “free radicals”—are a lot of bunk.

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New Clues in Puzzle of How Muscular Dystrophy Works
Issue date: 
01/11/2009
Author Name: 
Christy Casamassima

Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia have found a missing link in the puzzle of how neurons and muscle cells communicate. As reported in the in the Oct. 23 issue of Neuron, this missing puzzle piece, a protein called agrin, is mutated or attacked in muscular dystrophy and possibly other genetic diseases, like CMT, leading to loss of muscle control because of problems with neurons, muscle cells and/or their communication.

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New ALS Research Slows the Loss of Motor Neurons and Extends Life
Issue date: 
01/04/2009
Author Name: 
Christy Casamassima

In the Oct. 20 issue of Nature Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins researchers report that transplanting a new line of stem cell-like cells into rat models of the disease reduces signs of neurodegenerative disease in general and ALS in particular,  slowing the animals' neuron loss and extending life.

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