cuprizone

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cuprizone (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A copper-chelating agent that inhibits monoamine oxidases
    • 2015 July 29, Sarrabeth Stone, Wensheng Lin, “The unfolded protein response in multiple sclerosis”, in Frontiers in Neuroscience[1], volume 9, →DOI:
      Feeding of cuprizone (bis-cyclohexanone oxaldihydrazone) to young adult mice induces a synchronous consistent demyelination (Matsushima and Morell, 2001; Stidworthy et al., 2003).