Suramin is being looked at to treat autism and CFS. It has antipurinergic properties and works by stopping the cell danger response.
Here’s a quote from the article,
Sleeping Sickness Drug
Naviaux used a drug called suramin that battled sleeping sickness to reverse autism in his mouse model. An anti-purinergic signaling drug, suramin, Naviaux believes, stops the cell danger signal in its tracks. In two studies he's been able to show that the drug rebuilt the mouse's brain synapses, re -enabled stalled cell-to-cell signaling, improved its social behavior and motor coordination and normalized it's mitochondrial metabolism. The drug is now being tested in a small trial of autistic children.
https://www.healthrising.org/forums/threads/an-eye-on-the-mitochondria-man-robert-naviaux-and-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-cfs.4163/
https://health.ucsd.edu/news/topics/Suramin-Autism/Pages/Q-and-A.aspx
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