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Title
The complexity of neurobiological processes in acute ischemic stroke
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Abstract
There is an urgent need for improved diagnostics and therapeutics for acute ischemic stroke. This is the focus of numerous research projects involving in vitro studies, animal models and clinical trials, all of which are based on current knowledge of disease mechanisms underlying acute focal cerebral ischemia. Insight in the chain of events occurring during acute ischemic injury is essential for understanding current and future diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. In this review, we summarize the actual knowledge on the pathophysiology of acute ischemic stroke. We focus on the ischemic cascade, which is a complex series of neurochemical processes that are unleashed by transient or permanent focal cerebral ischemia and involves cellular bioenergetic failure, excitotoxicity, oxidative stress, bloodbrain barrier dysfunction, microvascular injury, hemostatic activation, post-ischemic inflammation and finally cell death of neurons, glial and endothelial cells.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Clinical neurology and neurosurgery / Netherlands Society of Neurology. - Assen, 1974, currens
Publication
Assen : Van Gorcum , 2009
ISSN
0303-8467 [print]
1872-6968 [online]
DOI
10.1016/J.CLINEURO.2009.04.001
Volume/pages
111 :6 (2009) , p. 483-495
ISI
000267459800001
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UAntwerpen
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Web of Science
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