An antihistamine used to treat itching may be the key to preventing seizures in children with a rare, yet severe form of epilepsy known as Dravet Syndrome.
The discovery was made by screening hundreds of government-approved drugs in animals with the same genetic mutation as children with the disorder. But instead of using rodents – the typical animal model for drug screenings – researchers used an unlikely test subject for their experiment: zebrafish.
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