Antabuse may help revive vision in people with progressive blinding disorders: Test of drug could prove role of hyperactive retinal cells in blindness, potentially leading to better therapies - Science Daily

Animal and cell studies show that as retinal cells die in degenerative eye diseases, they make other cells hyperactive, creating noise that further obscures vision. Tests to prove this in humans are hard to conduct, however. Antabuse, an approved drug used to…

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that a drug once widely used to wean alcoholics off of drinking helps to improve sight in mice with retinal degeneration.The drug may… [+7357 chars]

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