“…A combination therapy using copper and lipophilic chelators, such as diethyldithiocarbamate (DEDTC), disulfiram (a dimer of DEDTC), and dimethyldithiocarbamate, has been studied using a macular mouse model. The results suggest that this combination therapy improves copper concentration and cuproenzyme activities in the brain of the macular mouse [ [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] ]. A combination therapy using copper injections and oral disulfiram was administered to two patients with MD at the age of 8 and 10 years, respectively.…”