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------------------ By Carlos Byers Houston Chronicle ------------------ Baltimore - Speaking at the annual conference of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Dr. Solomon H. Snyder, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, reported that drugs developed to aid organ transplants also may promote the regrowth of nerves. Among the diseases that may prove treatable are Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, MD, and MS. Two promising compounds, proteins known as FKBP and GPI 1046, have been tested favorably on rats and are present- ly being tested on monkeys. If these results are favorable, tests on human patients will follow. Ken Rowland [log in to unmask]