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Prescription database analyses indicates that the asthma medicine montelukast might protect against dementia: a hypothesis to be verified

BACKGROUND: It has recently been shown that the leukotriene receptor antagonist montelukast rejuvenates aged brains in rats. The question is whether this commonly used, systemic, anti-asthmatic medicine has a similar effect in humans? RESULTS: We approached this issue by doing statistical analyses b...

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Autores principales: Grinde, Bjørn, Engdahl, Bo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28874912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12979-017-0102-7