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Down Symptom May Be Treatable In The Womb

US researchers have found that prenatal
treatment for Down syndrome works in mice
A pregnant woman who knows her unborn child has Down's syndrome might one day be able to prevent some symptoms before giving birth. That at least is the hope raised by experiments in mice. When fetal mouse pups that had a syndrome similar to Down's were treated with nerve-protecting chemicals, some of the developmental delays that are part of the condition were removed. ... Charles Cantor of the company Sequenom in San Diego, California, which is developing a non-invasive prenatal blood-screening test for Down's (New Scientist, 11 October, p 10), is excited at the prospect of a prenatal treatment. "I'd love to see these early screening tests lead to therapy and not just termination," he says. "It would have a big impact, especially for families that are not willing to consider abortion as an option."
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Study Has Hope For Down Babies
Unborn babies found to have Down syndrome could soon be treated in the womb with proteins to reduce the severity of the chromosomal abnormality. American doctors said experimental studies in mice pregnant with Down syndrome pups showed that injecting them with nerve-protecting proteins could ease the extent of developmental delay in offspring.

Posted by Editor at November 28, 2008 02:55 AM