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Promising MS drug may worsen disease – Science Daily
The drug has not yet made it to human trials for multiple sclerosis, but scientists are urging their colleagues to move cautiously.
A drug that has shown promise for treating multiple sclerosis may actually make the debilitating disease worse, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.The drug has not yet made it to human trials for MS, but the UVA scientists are warning their fellow researchers to proceed extremely cautiously. In addition to worsening the disease in mouse models, the drug also had unintended, off-target effects, they report.
“It was not at all what we expected,” said MS researcher…
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