Drug target for stimulating recovery from stroke discovered
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Investigators have shown that removing a matched set of molecules that typically help to regulate the brain's capacity for forming and eliminating connections between nerve cells could substantially aid recovery from stroke even days after the event. In experiments with mice, the scientists demonstrated that when these molecules are not present, the mice's ability to recover from induced strokes improved significantly.