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Science 21 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5708, pp. 361 - 362
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109027
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Perspectives

MEDICINE:
Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases with Antibiotics

Timothy M. Miller and Don W. Cleveland

Penicillin and its family of beta-lactam antibiotics are some of the most widely used and successful pharmaceuticals ever discovered. Heroes of the last century, the beta-lactam antibiotics are about to be reinvented as neurotherapeutics for treating neurological disease, as Miller and Cleveland explain in their Perspective.

The authors are at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the Department of Medicine and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. E-mail: dcleveland{at}ucsd.edu

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