Erschienen in:
01.10.2016 | Editorial
Stroke, Inflammation and the Immune Response: Dawn of a New Era
verfasst von:
Kyra J. Becker, Marion Buckwalter
Erschienen in:
Neurotherapeutics
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Ausgabe 4/2016
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Excerpt
This issue of
Neurotherapeutics focuses on immunologic changes after stroke, a promising target for stroke therapies. Stroke is a deadly and disabling disease; globally, it kills 12 % of all people and is a leading cause of disability [
1]. In the last few decades, great strides have been made in stroke prevention and also in acute therapies to restore blood flow to the brain before cells die. The next therapeutic frontier is to help people who have already suffered a brain infarction, and one of the most promising interventions is modulation of the immune system. This issue focuses on what is known about immunologic changes set into motion by stroke and targets for immunologically based therapies. …