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SUBMITTER: Lanfranconi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4373358 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 20091208 8
Data from pre-clinical and clinical studies provide evidence that colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) and other growth factors (GFs) can improve stroke outcome by reducing stroke damage through their anti-apoptotic and anti-inflammatory effects, and by promoting angiogenesis and neurogenesis. This review provides a critical and up-to-date literature review on CSF use in stroke. We searched for experimental and clinical studies on haemopoietic GFs such as granulocyte CSF, erythropoietin, granulocyt ...[more]