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From Medscape Medical News

Hypertension Drugs May Be Helpful in Treating Multiple Sclerosis

Allison Gandey

August 20, 2009 — Early research has investigators questioning whether angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors may also have a role in treating autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis. In a new study published online August 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers evaluated lisinopril in an animal model.
"When we treated mice with lisinopril given at standard doses, we could reverse paralysis," senior author Lawrence Steinman, MD, from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California told Medscape Neurology. "Who would have imagined that the angiotensin system could play such a decisive role in inflammation within the nervous system?"

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