Alix (or called AIP1 and p95) is the partner protein of various important cytoplasmic proteins, involving in various cellular events such as MVB sorting, retroviral budding, apoptosis, receptor endocytosis and etc. It is the protein I am studying. In this blog, I want to include some valuable references about this protein, or just about scientific research.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Sleeping pills offer wake-up call to vegetative patients

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060522/full/060522-9.html

It is an amazing story - the sleeping pill zolpidem (its market name is Ambien) can overcome brain shutdown. It becomes "the first treatment for 'persistent vegetative state'". The story sounds unbelievable - a drug for making sleepless people fall in sleep will wake up persons who'll sleep "forever". However, it sounds like the philosphy of Chinese traditional medicine. :) I like this idea.

posted by BAC at 2:01 PM

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