{"id":32242,"date":"2016-11-27T15:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T23:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-drug-limits-and-then-repairs-brain-damage-in-stroke"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:01:14","slug":"new-drug-limits-and-then-repairs-brain-damage-in-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-drug-limits-and-then-repairs-brain-damage-in-stroke","title":{"rendered":"New drug limits and then repairs brain damage in stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-drug-limits-and-then-repairs-brain-damage-in-stroke.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More progress to help stroke victims.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered that a potential new drug reduces the number of brain cells destroyed by stroke and then helps to repair the damage.<\/p>\n<p>A reduction in blood flow to the brain caused by <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/stroke\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stroke<\/a> is a major cause of death and disability, and there are few effective treatments.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists at The University of Manchester has now found that a potential new stroke drug not only works in rodents by limiting the death of existing brain cells but also by promoting the birth of new neurones (so-called neurogenesis).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-11-drug-limits-brain.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;11-drug-limits-brain.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More progress to help stroke victims. Researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered that a potential new drug reduces the number of brain cells destroyed by stroke and then helps to repair the damage. A reduction in blood flow to the brain caused by stroke is a major cause of death and disability, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65694,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32242\/revisions\/65694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}