wrinkles? gives a whole new meaning to "spit in your
face."

--- Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Shrew's spit to tame pain
>
>
> CP; CanWest News Service
>
>
> February 21, 2005
>
>
> Jack Stewart, a biochemistry professor at Mount
> Allison University in
> Sackville, N.B., and his team of researchers have
> discovered a compound
> in shrew spit that holds promise for pain control
> and cancer treatment.
> The substance, a protein Stewart has named
> soricidin, after the shrew
> family Soricidae, is about to be put through
> intensive animal testing
> and development. Soricidin's properties could make
> it useful in treating
> migraines, facial pain, neuromuscular diseases, and
> even wrinkles.
>
> C The Gazette (Montreal) 2005
>
>
>
> Selected Recent Publications
>
> Stewart, J.M., Vernes, K. and Steeves, B.J. 2004.
> Paralytic peptide for
> use in neuromuscular therapy. Filed with the United
> States Patent and
> Trademark Office in the USA and at the Canadian
> Receiving Office of the
> Patent Cooperation Treaty, and the European Patent
> Office. Published by
> EPO June 3, 2004.
>
>
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/science/bio/johnstewart.html
>




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