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Drug treatment for Lyme disease could lead to its eradication

newscientist.com

9 points by alfon 4 years ago · 3 comments

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alfonOP 4 years ago

My question would be how easy is for this molecule to cross the blood brain barrier. Perhaps if toxicity is very low you can diffuse it somewhat by maintaining high levels in blood, but my understanding is that molecules with a weight of more than 400daltons have trouble crossing it.

It might be also true that a certain percentage of lyme patients have some level of meningeal inflammation that might facilitate crossing more.

rkhassen9 4 years ago

Is there any way to try this out?

  • voldacar 4 years ago

    You might be able to order it from some chemical supplier. It's a niche molecule so I wouldn't expect it to be cheap

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