what kind of drug is Suramin
Suramin is an anti-neoplastic agent that has been used in the treatment of several infectious diseases, including African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis), a protozoan infection.
In the many hypotheses surrounding autism, one posits it is the consequence of abnormal cell communication. Researchers at the U.C. San Diego recently did a study using a drug from 1916, suramin, which was approved for treating sleeping sickness.