inosine

Introduction

Purine ribonucleoside & neurotransmitter.

Inosine increases axon growth of neurons distant to a stroke in the direction of the denervated areas of midbrain & spinal cord in a rat model. Inosine treatment also improved motor performance in rat with surgically-induced stroke within 19 days.

More general terms

• ribonucleoside
• purine nucleoside
• neurotransmitter

Database

• PubChem: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=804
• PubChem: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=6021
• PubChem: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=5274258