Saturday, March 29, 2014

L-21 stokes brain inflammation post stroke

And precisely what is your doctor doing about inflammation post-stroke? ANYTHING AT ALL? Does s/he even know about inflammation?
http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v14/n4/full/nri3656.html
Nature Reviews Immunology
14,
215
doi:10.1038/nri3656
Published online



Much of the secondary tissue damage associated with ischaemic stroke is caused by inflammation, but the factors involved in this neuroinflammation remain unclear. This study showed that interleukin-21 (IL-21) expression is greatly increased in the brain of mice following cerebral ischaemic reperfusion injury, that Il21−/− mice have reduced brain injury,…
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