| abstract |
Means for reducing adverse effects of neurotoxic injury, which comprises administering to a patient susceptible to neurotoxic injury an effective amount, sufficient to reduce the injury, of a compound which is an enantiomer of an analgesic opioid agonist or antagonist, preferably an opiate agonist having a ring system of the following stereochemistry, which shows only carbon and nitrogen atoms in the rings:n n The dextrorotatory opiates, dextrorphan and dextromethorphan, are particularly suitable for use in the invention. |