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Ep. 42: “Immune Mechanisms After Stroke” Featuring Dr. Arthur Liesz

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The Importance of Inflammation in Stroke Recovery

The current situation is quite frustrating for stroke patients, right? If we can't give them the specific therapies in the very early phase of the disease, meaning reopening the best, basically just doing a plumbing job there. So that's why what actually motivated me very early on, from my doctor's studies, to focus on the immune response to stroke and use this therapeutic means. Ten years ago, I was also thinking that blocking simply the invasion of pro-inflammatory and potentially deleterious cells from the periphery into the brain with a very smart approach. This might not be the smartest approach on the long run. On one side, we now just start to understand how inflammation actually contributes to recovery

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