A drug used nearly half a century ago to treat tuberculosis may help people who experience chronic pain. The drug, an antibiotic called D-Cycloserine, reduces chronic-pain-like symptoms in rats.
A. Vania Apkarian of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and his colleagues tested the drug on rats in which the researchers had cut tissue and a major nerve in one paw.
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