Opioid-induced hibernation protects against stroke
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 22:56
in Health & Medicine
Using an opioid drug to induce a hibernatory state in rats reduces the damage caused by an artificial stroke. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology have shown that those animals put into the chemical fugue suffered less behavioural dysfunctions after a period of cerebral artery blockage than control rats...