New Method for Tackling Stroke Restrains an Overactive Immune System - Scientific American
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The pathology of a stroke is deceptively complicated. In the simplest sense, strokes occur when the blood supply to a particular region of the brain is interrupted, cutting off the area to oxygen and nutrients. This deprivation results in injury and death to the local brain cells.
But for days after the breach in blood flow, the immune system also does its own fair share of damage to the already injured brain through an inflammatory response.