Quick answer
What is Cortexin?
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Cortexin is a peptide, grouped on this site under Short peptide bioregulators, and the 12 research records kept here are 4 from studies in rats or mice, 2 from trials in people and 6 that do not state what kind of study it is.
The literature search returned 181 records. This site keeps 12 of them, which is 6.6 per cent of what came back.
What it is
This site puts it in the Short peptide bioregulators group.
A cortical polypeptide preparation rather than a single molecule; the retrieved 2015 review discusses neuroprotective targets and the 2021 rat study compares it with other neurotrophic preparations, with no single receptor named.[1, 2]
Stated in the titles of the cited 2015 Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii review and 2021 PLoS One 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 169 retrieved records say. They are not in this index.
The longer explanation
Where this comes from
The records cited above, in full.
- [Cortexin. Molecular mechanisms and targets of neuroprotective activity]. Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (2015). pmid:26356623
- Neuroprotective action of Cortexin, Cerebrolysin and Actovegin in acute or chronic brain ischemia in rats. PloS one (2021). pmid:34260655