Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 978-0-387-30011-5
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Erythropoietin and the Nervous System is the first book of its kind to bring together researchers from many different disciplines of neuroscience to present a current state-of-the-art review of multiple aspects of erythropoietin research as it relates to the nervous system. Erythropoietin (EPO) is a chemokine hormone that is widely distributed throughout the body. In addition to its traditional role as a hormone that stimulates red blood cell production, in recent years many laboratories have shown that EPO can act as a neuroprotective compound in a variety of injury paradigms in the nervous system.
Subject: Medicine, Nervous System, brain, central nervous system, death, hypoxia, inflammation, neuroprotection, neuroscience, receptor, spinal cord, stroke