Researchers Find Stroke Death Channel

Source: University of British Columbia
Posted: June 7, 2006

Summary:

New therapies for stroke patients may soon be possible, thanks to a discovery made by a team of University of British Columbia neuroscience researchers who have found a new stroke death channel -- the conduit through which key chemicals are lost from brain cells during stroke, causing the cell death that disables stroke victims.

Commentary: Maybe this fnding could enable the prevention of brain cell death, or even enable the reproduction or regeneration of brain cells and brain cell chemicals that are destroyed as the result of a stroke, and provide new strategies for the development of therapies and treatments for stroke patients.