The National Institutes of Health has awarded a four-year, $1.4 million grant to Cedars-Sinai's Department of Neurology to study an unexpected recent discovery: After ischemic stroke the type caused by a clogged artery but with no bleeding into the brain a normal protein that plays a positive role in blood clotting escapes intact arteries and damages healthy brain cells. "We knew thrombin leaked out during hemorrhagic strokes those in which an artery ruptures and we knew that in large amounts it killed brain cells...
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