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Whoops!-it is memantine-a glutamate inhibitor » SLS

Posted by Ritch on April 23, 2003, at 23:37:25

In reply to Re: Amineptine (Survector) should be back :) » Ritch, posted by SLS on April 23, 2003, at 20:39:20

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> > I was listening to NPR a couple of weeks ago and it seems that amineptine is likely to be approved soon (or already has been approved or something-whatever) for late-stage Alzheimer's disease.
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> Are you sure they weren't talking about memantine?
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> I hope it is amineptine that they were talking about. I don't think memantine is to be approved specifically for late-stage DAT.
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> - Scott

Whoops! Yes it was Memantine instead they were talking about evidently. Here's a link from the NIH. Glutamate inhibition. Hmmm. Sounds pretty interesting to me. Isn't lithium and Topamax and Lamictal involved somehow with this mechanism of action (directly or indirectly)?

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_12227.html

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