Traditional Chinese medicine has growing importance in the treatment of ischemia stroke due to its abundance and low drug resistance. In this study, we aim to investigate the therapeutic potential of daucosterol palmitate against ischemia stroke, as well as its neuro-protective mechanism. The
We previously reported that daucosterol (a sterolin) up-regulates the expression of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF1)(1) protein in neural stem cells. In this study, we investigated the effects of daucosterol on the survival of cultured cortical neurons after neurons were subjected to oxygen and
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