Viagra when combined with another FDA-approved drug may enhance the collection of blood stem cells, used in the treatment of leukemia and several other diseases.
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Now researchers from the University of California in Santa Cruz may have come up with a perhaps, unusual solution to this. Work published today in "It is possible that the drug combination will have side effects in humans, even though each drug alone is safe," said senior author of the paper, Professor Camilla Forsberg, a stem cell biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "Given that both drugs are FDA approved, they could be relatively quickly tested in human volunteers.
The mice treated with Viagra alone didn't show any signs of increasing their mobilization of blood stem cells, so people who take Viagra for other reasons need not be worried, but the question everybody reading this is likely to be asking is, well did male mice treated with Viagra experience the"intended" effects of Viagra? Not noticeably, but larger mammals on a human clinical trial may.
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