Study points to potential treatment for stroke
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 17:20
in Health & Medicine
Neuroscientists have demonstrated that a compound mimicking a key activity of a hefty, brain-based protein is capable of increasing the generation of new nerve cells, or neurons, in the brains of mice that have had strokes. The mice also exhibited a speedier recovery of their athletic ability.
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