Is Lithium a drug for differentiation ?

Question

Ok Lithium as a Drug has been used for bipolar disorders and manic depressive illness for over a period of 50 yrs ,
present scenario of lithium's
1) Neuroprotective role
2) Differentiative role in progenitor cells

has provoked ideas on its other therapeutive actions , can lithium as a drug induce glioma's , blastoma's to be a potential anti-tumour drug ?
Can it re-differentiate cells which are already differentiated aka glioma's ...?

Answer 1

At the present time, in the United States anyway, lithium (as a drug) is mostly used (medically, anyway) either as a supplement to another medication for depression or as a treatment for manic depression (bipolar disorder). Any other "off-label" or experimental uses are most likely going to be also psychiatry related. Not sure what you mean by "differentiation"...