Convulsive seizure with unconciousness is an adverse effect of new quinolone antibiotics including fleroxacin. A block of GABA receptor in CNS has been reported as pathomechanism. A 48-year-old female patient with Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) had encephalopathy induced by fleroxacin. She revealed
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3/Machado-Joseph disease (SCA3/MJD) is one of 10 known polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases. In Drosophila and rat models of polyQ diseases, histone deacetylation (HDAC) inhibitors improved locomotor function and survival time by increasing histone acetylation levels and