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Request for science help re: gancyclovir
I'm wondering if any more scientifically knowledgeable folks can help me with Gancyclovir. It's one of many pages that have no references at all and probably I'm best equipped just to tag them for cleanup, but since the entry only contains two claims, I thought I could track down refs to verify them. Ha ha. I found these studies which (if I understand them correctly) make opposing claims about its effect on microglial: "The antiviral drug ganciclovir does not inhibit microglial proliferation and activation" (2015) versus "Antiviral drug ganciclovir is a potent inhibitor of microglial proliferation and neuroinflammation" (2014). Is anyone available to help either revise the page (if I'm correct that maybe these are conflicting results that require qualification on the page) or confirm for me that the latter ref (or some other ref?) suffices to verify the entry's current claim that gancyclovir "also reduces microglial activation." Thanks much. Canele (talk) 17:45, 15 April 2019 (EDT)
 * Excellent question. I answer your question here.  (Spoiler: it doesn’t reduce microglial activation after all.)
 * Pyrrhus (talk) 18:17, 15 April 2019 (EDT)
 * Oh, thank you so much Pyrrhus! Ok, I've updated both the gancyclovir and valgancyclovir. If you have a chance to look over and make sure I've presented it accurately, I'd be grateful! (Whew, glad we're fixing this! Def the kind of thing that argues for working hard to recruit and retrain a lot more folks to comb the 2500+ pages for such issues...) Canele (talk) 20:57, 15 April 2019 (EDT)