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VPA
(redirected from valproate)

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VPAValproic Acid (anticonvulsant drug)
VPAValproate
VPAVisual and Performing Arts (educational department)
VPAVoluntary Partnership Agreement
VPAVirtual Population Analysis
VPAVancouver Port Authority (Canada)
VPAVietnam People's Army
VPAVaginal Pulse Amplitude
VPAVoluntary Placement Agreement
VPAVolunteer Protection Act of 1997
VPAVermont Principals' Association
VPAVolume Purchase Agreement
VPAVAX Performance Advisor
VPAVictorian Preservation Association
VPAVolunteer Pilots Association
VPAValid Peripheral Address
VPAVietnam Pepper Association
VPAVirtual Pilots Association
VPAVoice Path Assurance (telephony)
VPAVernal Pool Association (Peabody, MA)
VPAVertical Patch Antenna
VPAVancouver Public Aquarium
VPAVariable Power Amplifier
VPAVoluntary Pricing Agreement
VPAVector Potential Analysis
VPAVice President Agency
VPAVirginia Port Authority (Norfolk, VA)
VPAVirtual Personal Assistant (various companies)
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Preliminary findings show that children whose mothers took the drug sodium valproate (SV), which is sold under the brand name Epilim, had a lower IQ, regardless of the mother's intelligence.
Fears that drug affects children's intelligence; City experts check ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Toddlers of moms who took the epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy had lower IQs than the children of women who used other anti-seizure medicines, according to a new study.
HEALTH MATTERS: Epilepsy Drug in Pregnancy May Lower IQ by Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
Sodium valproate - which is marketed as the anti-seizure drug Epilim - has been shown by the research team to reactivate the body's own defences against a small protein called amyloid beta peptide, which is the main component of the brain plaques characteristic in Alzheimer's.
Epilepsy drug may harbour cure for Alzheimer's by Asian News International
 
 
 
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