METHODS FOR TREATING A NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER BY PERIPHERAL ADMINISTRATION OF A TROPHIC FACTOR

摘要

The invention provides methods of treating a subject having a disease, disorder or condition of the central nervous system. The methods include administering TGF-a polypeptides, related polypeptides, fragments and mimetics thereof useful in stimulating progenitor cell or stem cell proliferation, migration and differentiation. The methods of the invention are useful to treat and prophylactically ameliorate neurological tissue injury