Erythropoietin as neuroprotective and neuroregenerative treatment strategy: Comprehensive overview of 12 years of preclinical and clinical research

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 573-594

  Sargin, Derya ^a,b   Friedrichs, Heidi ^a,b   El Kordi, Ahmed ^a,b   Ehrenreich, Hannelore ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

EPO variants; Erythropoietin receptor; Multiple sclerosis; Neurodegeneration; Schizophrenia; Stroke; Traumatic brain injury; Traumatic spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; PLACEBO;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALARIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NEURITIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COGNITION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 78649668528     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2010.10.005     Document Type: Review

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