Cognitive Impairments Induced by Concussive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Mouse Are Ameliorated by Treatment with Phenserine via Multiple Non-Cholinergic and Cholinergic Mechanisms.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), often caused by a concussive impact to the head, affects an estimated 1.7 million Americans annually. With no approved drugs, its pharmacological treatment represents a significant and currently unmet medical need. In our prior development of the anti-cholinesterase com...

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Main Authors: David Tweedie, Koji Fukui, Yazhou Li, Qian-Sheng Yu, Shani Barak, Ian A Tamargo, Vardit Rubovitch, Harold W Holloway, Elin Lehrmann, William H Wood, Yongqing Zhang, Kevin G Becker, Evelyn Perez, Henriette Van Praag, Yu Luo, Barry J Hoffer, Robert E Becker, Chaim G Pick, Nigel H Greig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4890804?pdf=render