Month: July 2011

Study Identifies Protein that Could Shrink Brain Lesions in Stroke Patients

Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that revealed alpha-B-crystallin, a naturally occurring protein, significantly shrank the size of stroke-induced lesions in the brains of laboratory mice, and mitigated the destructiveness of the inflammatory response that follows the stroke.

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