Jul 25, 2008
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - July 25, 2008) - WEX Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("WEX" or the "Company") (TSX:WXI) announced today that Dr. Neil Hagen, the lead investigator for WEX's Phase III clinical trial of TTX, will make a presentation titled "Tetrodotoxin (TTX): From Poison to Medicine" at the IXth World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Quebec City, Quebec on July 28. For more information, please see www.cpt2008.com. About TTX Tetrodotoxin (TTX), a highly selective sodium channel blocker derived from the puffer fish. Sodium channels are found on nerves and are involved in transmission of nerve impulses. Tetrodotoxin targets a subset of sodium channels found on nerves which conduct pain impulses. There are changes to this subset of sodium channels in chronic pain conditions. Tetrodotoxin is...
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