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Asialoerythropoietin is a nonerythropoietic cytokine with broad neuroprotective activity <i>in vivo</i>
13 May 2003
Abstract excerpt
Erythropoietin (EPO) is a tissue-protective cytokine preventing vascular spasm, apoptosis, and inflammatory responses. Although best known for its role in hematopoietic lineages, EPO also affects other tissues, including those of the nervous system. Enthusiasm for recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) as a potential neuroprotective therapeutic must be tempered, however, by the knowledge it also enlarges...
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