Junpeng Long, Yang Sun, Shasha Liu, Songwei Yang, Chen Chen, Zhao Zhang, Shifeng Chu, Yantao Yang, Gang Pei, Meiyu Lin, Qian Yan, Jiao Yao, Yuting Lin, Fan Yi, Lei Meng, Yong Tan, Qidi Ai, Naihong Chen
Stroke has caused tremendous social stress worldwide, yet despite decades of research and development of new stroke drugs, most have failed and rt-PA (Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator) is still the accepted treatment for ischemic stroke. the complexity of the stroke mechanism has led to unsatisfactory efficacy of most drugs in clinical trials, indicating that there are still many gaps in our understanding of stroke. Pyroptosis is a programmed cell death (PCD) with inflammatory properties and are thought to be closely associated with stroke...
May 10, 2023: Cell Death Discovery