On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, siobhan wrote:

> ** I don't know, Todd, I'm not saying you're wrong but I am saying that I'm
> more than a little skeptical of conducting studies on rats and then taking
> the preliminary findings and assuming that these findings would apply to
> human beings.

Well sure, but there are human studies as well.
See
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10477245&dopt=Abstract

Here's another:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3362176&dopt=Abstract

A review:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7695873&dopt=Abstract

Todd Moody
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