Improving stroke treatment with a modified therapeutic molecule
E-Mail IMAGE: INRS Professor Marc A. Gauthier is a specialist in dynamic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry and biomaterials. view more Credit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A research team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has improved the protective effect of a molecule against ischemic stroke, which is caused by an interruption of blood flow to the brain. The results of the study, conducted in collaboration with a Spanish team, were published in the Communications Biology of Nature Research journal. Every year in Quebec, about 20,000 people have a stroke. A...