Brain Damage

G-CSF and SCF injection exacerbates excitotoxic brain injury in the newborn

Published in Blood Weekly, May 25th, 2006

Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor and stem cell factor injection exacerbates excitotoxic brain injury in the newborn.

"Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) has been shown to reduce brain lesion size and mortality in adult mice after hypoxic-ischemic injury.

"Another hematopoietic growth factor, stem cell factor (SCF), has been shown to be upregulated in the brains of adult rodents following brain damage, where it stimulates postlesional neurogenesis," researchers in Austria report.

According to M. Keller and colleagues at the Medical University of Innsbruck,

"Injection of the excitotoxic agent...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2006-05-25)

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