As a class, peptide therapeutics offer high specificity, relatively low toxicity, and the ability to mimic endogenous biological pathways, advantages that are increasingly attractive in complex chronic diseases
This suggests that better prognosis after a stroke might be achieved if body weight reduction will be given a high priority in people diagnosed with diabetes, says Ellen Vercalsteren, Postdoc at the Department of Clinical Science and Education, Sdersjukhuset, who has conducted important experiments in the study
As with many drugs, you get the desired effect, but you also get undesirable side effects
While the exact location of the neurological injury has yet to be identified since MRI (0.5 T) assessments conducted in 1993 on 2 konzo-affected individuals reported no pathological findings, the phenotypic presentation of various severities (Stages 13) of hyperreflexia and non-spastic paraparesis suggests damage of motor neurons and corresponding brain regions