Diabetes drug may help symptoms of autism-associated condition

[Northerner]

Metformin, the most widely used drug to treat type 2 diabetes, could potentially be used to treat symptoms of Fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of intellectual disability and a cause of some forms of autism.

A new study led by researchers at McGill University, the University of Edinburgh and Université de Montréal has found that metformin improves social, behavioural and morphological defects in Fragile X mice.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170515111614.htm

Wonder drug strikes again! 😉

 

[mikeyB]

It's the poor bloody mice again. It's animal cruelty, giving them fragile X syndrome.

 

[trophywench]

Well Mike - given the choice of being a lab mouse, or meeting the Little Nipper - which way would you go ? LOL