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SUBMITTER: Bartels C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3002551 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bartels Claudia C Späte Kira K Krampe Henning H Ehrenreich Hannelore H
Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders 20081101 3
Treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) is still unsatisfactory and essentially non-existing for the progressive course of the disease. Recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) may be a promising neuroprotective/neuroregenerative treatment of MS. In the nervous system, EPO acts anti-apoptotic, antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, neurotrophic and plasticity-modulating. Beneficial effects have been shown in animal models of various neurological and psychiatric diseases, including different models of expe ...[more]