Mice point to a therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
VIB researchers have developed a mouse model for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathy, a hereditary disease of the peripheral nervous system. They also found a potential therapy for this incurable disease. The treatment not only halted the damage to the nerves and the atrophy of the muscles, it even succeeded in reversing the symptoms.