PROTECTING AND SURVIVAL PROMOTING AGENT FOR CENTRAL NERVOUS CELL

摘要

A cell survival promoting agent for central nervous cells, containing as the active ingredient a compound selected from the group consisting of L-serine, glycine, and fatty acid derivatives thereof; and an agent for prevention and/or treatment of a lowering in the function of brains, containing the compound as the active ingredient. The cell survival promoting agent functions to protect brain cells to inhibit cell death and, at the same time, to prolong the life of the cells. It can inhibit the death of brain cells induced, for example, by cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, and cerebral edema and the rise of the intracranial temperature caused by cephalic lesion or the like.