Pilot study of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor for treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 843-855

  Sanchez Ramos, Juan ^a,b,c   Cimino, Cynthia ^b,c   Avila, Ross ^c   Rowe, Amanda ^c   Chen, Ren ^c   Whelan, Glenn ^d   Lin, Xiaoyang ^a   Cao, Chuanhai ^a,c,d   Ashok, Raj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; amyloid ; computer assisted neuropsychological battery; cytokines; filgrastim; granulocyte colony stimulating factor; NEUPOGEN; paired associate learning

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; AMPHETAMINE PLUS DEXAMPHETAMINE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; DONEPEZIL; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 17F; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEMANTINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TAU PROTEIN; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; SIDE EFFECT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84866318295     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2012-120196     Document Type: Article

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