"Neuroprotective Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Drugs intended to prevent damage to the brain or spinal cord from ischemia, stroke, convulsions, or trauma. Some must be administered before the event, but others may be effective for some time after. They act by a variety of mechanisms, but often directly or indirectly minimize the damage produced by endogenous excitatory amino acids.
| Descriptor ID |
D018696
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.696.706.548 D27.505.954.427.575
|
| Concept/Terms |
Neuroprotective Agents- Neuroprotective Agents
- Agents, Neuroprotective
- Neuroprotectants
- Neuroprotective Drugs
- Drugs, Neuroprotective
Neuroprotective Effect- Neuroprotective Effect
- Effect, Neuroprotective
- Neuroprotective Effects
- Effects, Neuroprotective
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Neuroprotective Agents".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Neuroprotective Agents".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Neuroprotective Agents" by people in this website by year, and whether "Neuroprotective Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Neuroprotective Agents" by people in Profiles.
-
Can intrabodies serve as neuroprotective therapies for Parkinson's disease? Beginning thoughts. J Parkinsons Dis. 2013; 3(4):581-91.
-
Injectable hydrogels providing sustained delivery of vascular endothelial growth factor are neuroprotective in a rat model of Huntington's disease. Neurotox Res. 2010 Jan; 17(1):66-74.
-
Viral delivery of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor improves behavior and protects striatal neurons in a mouse model of Huntington's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jun 13; 103(24):9345-50.