Article 42DY6 Botulinum toxin: Researchers discover potential antidote for most poisonous bacterial toxin

Botulinum toxin: Researchers discover potential antidote for most poisonous bacterial toxin

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Researchers have identified a compound that strongly inhibits botulinum neurotoxin, the most toxic compound known. That inhibiting compound, nitrophenyl psoralen (NPP), could be used as a treatment to reduce paralysis induced by botulism. Botulinum neurotoxin is considered a potential bioweapon because there is no FDA-approved antidote. The research is published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a ["]

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