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  2. From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.drugs
  4. Subject: Re: MPTP (was Re: MDMA and self-esteem)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec24.004712.2005@u.washington.edu>
  6. Date: 24 Dec 92 00:47:12 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec15.155012.10012@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec18.221614.12434@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec23.073154.15839@u.washington.edu> <1992Dec23.140300.11127@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
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  9. Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
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  12. djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes:
  13. >MPTP is oxidized _in vivo_ to MPP+, the toxic species.  I think
  14. >deprenyl showed some indication in preventing the oxidation.
  15.  
  16. I read that inhibition of MAO in general worked.  I'm not sure about
  17. MAO-A inhibitors, however, which might not work if deprenyl works...
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  20. Lamont Granquist  lamontg@u.washington.edu
  21.   "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
  22.                                       -- Robert Anton Wilson
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