Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) in stroke patients with concomitant vascular disease-a randomized controlled trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Floel, Agnes ^a   Warnecke, Tobias ^b   Duning, Thomas ^b   Lating, Yvonne ^b   Uhlenbrock, Jan ^b   Schneider, Armin ^c   Vogt, Gerhard ^c   Laage, Rico ^c   Koch, Winfried ^d   Knecht, Stefan ^b   Schäbitz, Wolf Rüdiger ^e  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c SYGNIS Bioscience   (Germany)

^d HaaPACS GmbH   (Germany)

^e EVANGELISCHES KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFESTATION; LEARNING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; THORAX DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WHITE MATTER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

ANIMALIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; STROKE; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 79956366499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019767     Document Type: Article

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