Nature Medicine 11, 1153 - 1154 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nm1105-1153
Diuretic soothes seizures in newbornsAtsuo Fukuda
The author is in the Department of Physiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan. axfukuda@hama-med.ac.jp
Infants with seizures have few treatment options, because anticonvulsants effective in adults rarely work. A widely used diuretic takes advantage of the unique physiology of the developing brain and could lead to a therapy (pages 1205–1213).
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