Opaminergic neuronal survival-promoting factors and uses thereof

摘要

The invention features a pharmaceutical composition that includes arginine-rich protein and a pharmaceutically-acceptable excipient. The invention also features methods for treatment of a neurodegenerative disease, methods for improving neuronal survival during or following cell transplantation, methods for production of neurons for transplantation, and methods for identifying compounds that modulate or mimic arginine-rich protein's biological activity.