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valproate

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val·pro·ate  (vl-prt)
n.
An anticonvulsive drug, C8H15NaO2, given orally and by injection in the treatment of epilepsy.
[valpro(ic acid) (val(eric acid) + pro(pyl) + -ic) + -ate.]
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Preliminary findings show that children whose mothers took the drug sodium valproate (SV), which is sold under the brand name Epilim, had a lower IQ, regardless of the mother's intelligence.
Fears that drug affects children's intelligence; City experts check ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Toddlers of moms who took the epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy had lower IQs than the children of women who used other anti-seizure medicines, according to a new study.
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Sodium valproate - which is marketed as the anti-seizure drug Epilim - has been shown by the research team to reactivate the body's own defences against a small protein called amyloid beta peptide, which is the main component of the brain plaques characteristic in Alzheimer's.
Epilepsy drug may harbour cure for Alzheimer's by Asian News International
 
 
 
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