Pedigree Query

I made the statement about levamisole, that it might help with bleeders. Nobody bit. This drug is used to help with everything from MS to Tuberculosis. I think it might help with bleeding--changes cell membrane and endoplasmic reticulum in lung cells. Anybody ever try this? By the by totally legal--only a wormer. Mary

Mary, could you give some brand names for that wormer? Its not Panacur is it? I'm too lazy to check.

Tramisole(feed thru crumbles) or Levamisole(injectable, but also absorbed thru the gut) are the two trade names I know. There was also a pour on, but I haven't found it on the market. Do you know anybody who has tried this? I'm good, but this is too obvious, somebody else must have had this idea. Mary

Do you have any links to articles regarding this drug's use in treating MS?

Rougelet,
Give me until this week end and I'll do a Pubmed search for you. Mary

Thank you! I would be very interested in reading about that.

I am interested as well, Mary. Sounds interesting.

Tucumcari and Rougelet,
Use of dicaris(levamisole on the human side) in the treatment of MS is a Polish and Russian project. When I ran PubMed on this treatment of MS, no American or English researchers were investigating levamisole treatment, but the former Soviet bloc has many articles on the efficacy of levamisole on MS symptoms. I don't read Polish or Russian, so I can only read the abstracts. They seem incredibly promising, but without investigation in our part of the world, its impossible to tell. You judge research by the lab its out of and the people on the author line. Some people always write carefully some people never do. I have no way to judge researchers from the Soviet bloc. Go run a PubMed search for levamisole and MS and judge for yourselves---and let me know what you think. Mary Syers