{"id":141171,"date":"2022-06-27T04:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/epilepsy-drug-found-to-thwart-nervous-system-tumor-growth"},"modified":"2022-06-27T04:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:02:20","slug":"epilepsy-drug-found-to-thwart-nervous-system-tumor-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/epilepsy-drug-found-to-thwart-nervous-system-tumor-growth","title":{"rendered":"Epilepsy drug found to thwart nervous system tumor growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epilepsy-drug-found-to-thwart-nervous-system-tumor-growth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if an already-Food and Drug Administration-approved drug could help treat a particularly troublesome disorder? Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found just such a use for one drug, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nfcenter.wustl.edu\/research\/research-news\/epilepsy-drug-stops-nervous-system-tumor-growth-in-mice\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to a press release<\/a> by the institution published earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><b> An old drug with a new purpose<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The condition is neurofibromatosis type 1 (Nf1) and the drug is lamotrigine, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/new-epilepsy-drug-sleep-apnea\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/new-epilepsy-drug-sleep-apnea\">an epilepsy drug<\/a>. People suffering from Nf1 develop tumors on nerves throughout their bodies that are usually benign but can still cause serious medical issues such as blindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if an already-Food and Drug Administration-approved drug could help treat a particularly troublesome disorder? Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found just such a use for one drug, according to a press release by the institution published earlier this month. An old drug with a new purpose The condition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}