Citicoline in pre-clinical animal models of stroke: A meta-analysis shows the optimal neuroprotective profile and the missing steps for jumping into a stroke clinical trial

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 217-225

  Bustamante, Alejandro ^a   Giralt, Dolors ^a   Garcia Bonilla, Lidia ^a   Campos, Mireia ^a   Rosell, Anna ^a   Montaner, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

animal models; citicoline; ischemic stroke; meta analysis; meta regression; systematic review

Indexed keywords

CITICOLINE;

BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE CHOLINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; STROKE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84867089591     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2012.07891.x     Document Type: Review

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