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The majority of drugs developed for neurologic indications fail because they are not clinically tolerated. A sensible strategy, therefore, is to explore the efficacy of drugs in the nervous system that have already been approved for other indications. When I was in medical school, erythropoietin was known to be a cytokine produced in the kidney and was thought to be important only for the development of red cells, which bear receptors for erythropoietin. But recent results have shown that nerve cells also have erythropoietin receptors and that this cytokine is made in the nervous system and can function as a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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