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Show Itah Medics Identify Jljody Nerve Chemical (1 uirAfiO 111 -Utah medical scientists have evidence of J CHI W w, unknQwn Chemical involved in nervous inhibi-tfr inhibi-tfr I'ecentral nervous system. This chemical is acetylcholine, HI ' Tine which has been known to be involved in nerve im- Emission in the peripheral nervous system. " finding was presented in a report by Roger K. Ferguson, 0 K Williams Dr Barbara Zablocka, and Dr. Don W. Esplin, n , University' College of 'Medicine's department of pharma-i pharma-i at the 48th annual American Federation of Experimental 'I , in Chicago. Mr. Ferguson is a third year student in the i8e of Medicine. ACCORDING TO DR. Esplin, associate professor of pharma-111 pharma-111 '; Mioev and director of the investigation, in both peripheral and 1 Mini nervous systems, impulses travel along the nerve axon through the mass of the nerve cell) using electrical energy. WW,, an imoulse has to. 10 (: jjnp from one cell to the next tough the space between .... tan called a synapse, the en-Wl en-Wl ,resy used is chemical," he ex-m ex-m gained. He added that another Mm emical. or possibly chemicals, Ml, ii sre inhibitors of the nerve im-4m im-4m pulses. He said that this inhibi-waw inhibi-waw acts the same way as does .vM insulation on a telephone wire. "IF THERE were no inhibitors, ism impulses would travel through the nervous system all over the body, just as a single i telephone call over wires with-im with-im n; insulation would ring every telephone in town," he said. He that the poison strych-4 strych-4 nine Mocks inhibitors so that j nervous impulse is carried all Hi iver the body and results in vio-I vio-I jh convulsions and death. ijj 'hat are the possibilities that J tm from the discovery of the ' Mil responsible for inhibit-"1 inhibit-"1 the central nervous system? According to Dr. Esplin, "Talk-'i(in "Talk-'i(in extremes, if we could de- e the level of inhibition, we ttfjl "iM have possible treatments fJI 'psychoses and neuroses. THE ABILITY to modify in-on in-on might also be of bene- 11 treating such conditions fwehral pals yand Parkinson's y. Of course all of this in- ' 10 or 20 years and isnds of investigators all j for the right chemical II to react with the chem-' chem-' 1 inhibitor to modify it " I H the last three years, Esplm and his colleagues V1' worked with three drugs n to interact with acteyl-I1 acteyl-I1 does strychnine in 'Peripheral nervous system, !! ' their effect wo"ld .;; "e central nervous sys-; sys-; , e drugs were pilocarpine I the emik poison of IteB and arecoli"e. from r Lnut' chewed bv south J 'nh'bitor ' the ived in inhibition ir m iirrvous system' |