Quick answer
What is Cerebrolysin?
Built from index records dated 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-13 Compiled by an automated pipeline, checked by The Peptide Observer editorial desk. No qualified clinical reviewer. How this site works
Cerebrolysin is a peptide, grouped on this site under Neuroactive peptides, and the 12 research records kept here are 3 from studies in rats or mice, 2 from trials in people and 7 that do not state what kind of study it is.
The literature search returned 664 records. This site keeps 12 of them, which is 1.8 per cent of what came back.
What it is
This site puts it in the Neuroactive peptides group.
Characterised in the retrieved records as a mixture of neurotrophic factors rather than a single molecular entity, so no single receptor target applies.[1, 2]
Stated in the title of the cited 2012 CNS and Neurological Disorders Drug Targets paper.
What kind of records
No public chemistry record was found under this name, so the entry describes a preparation, a protein or a mixture rather than one defined molecule.
That sentence is produced by counting, not by reading. What was counted: PubChem returned no compound record for this name, so the subject is a preparation, protein or mixture rather than a defined small molecule; identity fields are unsourced.
What this does not settle
- What it does in a body. Counting records is not reading them, and nothing here has been read in full.
- Whether it causes harm. No adverse-effect row was taken from any source for this entry.
- How long it lasts. No pharmacokinetics source was retrieved for this entry.
- What the other 652 retrieved records say. They are not in this index.
The longer explanation
Where this comes from
The records cited above, in full.
- Cerebrolysin, a mixture of neurotrophic factors induces marked neuroprotection in spinal cord injury following intoxication of engineered nanoparticles from metals. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets (2012). pmid:22229324
- The pharmacology of neurotrophic treatment with Cerebrolysin: brain protection and repair to counteract pathologies of acute and chronic neurological disorders. Drugs of today (Barcelona, Spain : 1998) (2012). pmid:22514792