In the race to limit brain damage after a stroke, most treatments try to block harmful processes. A University of Florida Health researcher is pursuing a different strategy: boosting the brain’s own protective machinery.
Using the University of Florida’s HiPerGator supercomputer, a UF Health researcher helped identify a drug candidate that enhances an enzyme known to curb cell damage after an ischemic stroke, which occurs when a clot blocks blood flow to the brain.
Such drug candidates could eventually serve as the foundation for new stroke therapies.
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