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Treatment with metformin in twelve patients with Lafora disease
BACKGROUND: Lafora disease (LD) is a rare, lethal, progressive myoclonus epilepsy for which no targeted therapy is currently available. Studies on a mouse model of LD showed a good response to metformin, a drug with a well known neuroprotective effect. For this reason, in 2016, the European Medicine...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6588886/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31227012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13023-019-1132-3 |