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The role of citicoline in cognitive impairment: pharmacological characteristics, possible advantages, and doubts for an old drug with new perspectives

BACKGROUND: Citicoline is able to potentiate neuroplasticity and is a natural precursor of phospholipid synthesis, or rather serves as a choline source in the metabolic pathways for biosynthesis of acetylcholine. Several studies have shown that it can have beneficial effects both in degenerative and...

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Autores principales: Gareri, Pietro, Castagna, Alberto, Cotroneo, Antonino Maria, Putignano, Salvatore, De Sarro, Giovambattista, Bruni, Amalia Cecilia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26366063
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S87886