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Targeting excessive calcium may provide a new way to improve outcomes in stroke patients – News-Medical.Net
Excessive calcium contributes to harmful inflammation in ischemic stroke, and targeting it may provide doctors with a new way to improve patient outcomes, new research…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 23 2020
Excessive calcium contributes to harmful inflammation in ischemic stroke, and targeting it may provide doctors with a new way to improve patient outcomes, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.
Petr Tvrdik, Ph.D., has found that immune cells called microglia are flooded with waves of calcium in the wake of ischemic strokes, which are strokes caused by disruption of blood flow to the brain. These calcium waves, he determined,…
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