Post-Stroke Inflammation and the Potential Efficacy of Novel Stem Cell Therapies: Focus on Amnion Epithelial Cells

Ischemic stroke is a debilitating disease for which there are currently no effective treatments besides the clot-buster, tissue plasminogen activator, which is administered to less than 10 % of patients due to a limited (4.5 h) time window of efficacy. Thus, there is an urgent need for novel therap...

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Main Authors: Brad RS Broughton, Rebecca eLim, Thiruma V Arumugam, Grant R Drummond, Euan M Wallace, Christopher G Sobey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncel.2012.00066/full