“…Although intermediates in the pathway, we do not know whether SFKs directly phosphorylate these receptor tyrosine kinases or if the effect is indirect. Similarly, although it is parsimonious to posit that the neuroprotective action of blocking SFKs is attributable to their ability to decrease TrkB activation, the plethora of SFK substrates (in particular MAPK) raise other possibilities (Murray et al, 1998;Runden et al, 1998;Grewal et al, 1999;Ishikawa et al, 2000;Kaplan and Miller, 2000;Kim et al, 2003;Bromann et al, 2004;Choi et al, 2004;Luttrell and Luttrell, 2004). Regardless of its precise mechanism of action, increases in SFK activity can adversely affect neuronal health (or exacerbate toxic insult, i.e., A peptides) and inhibition of SFK activity can protect neurons from insult (Lambert et al, 1998;Chin et al, 2004Chin et al, , 2005Lennmyr et al, 2004).…”