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Nature Medicine  10, 675 - 676 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm0704-675

Brain on steroids resists neurodegeneration

Mark P Burns & Karen Duff

Mark P. Burns and Karen Duff are at the Nathan Kline Institute, New York University, Orangeburg, New York 10962, USA. duff@nkri.rfmh.org

A single injection of the neurosteroid allopregnanolone can delay the onset of neurological symptoms, decrease neuronal cell death and double the lifespan of mice with Niemann−Pick type C disease (pages 704−711).

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