Potential therapeutic uses of BDNF in neurological and psychiatric disorders

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-219

  Nagahara, Alan H ^a   Tuszynski, Mark H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPAKINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; LITHIUM SALT; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; NOOTROPIC AGENT; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; PEPTIDOMIMETIC AGENT; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; COGNITION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEPRESSION; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DYSESTHESIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPIGENETICS; EXERCISE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MENTAL DISORDERS; METABOLIC DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PARKINSON DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STROKE;

EID: 79952182383     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: 14741784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd3366     Document Type: Review

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