Frank R Sharp, Glen C Jickling, Boryana Stamova, Yingfang Tian, Xinhua Zhan, Bradley P Ander, Christopher Cox, Beth Kuczynski, Dazhi Liu
A blood test to detect stroke and its causes would be particularly useful in babies, young children, and patients in intensive care units and for emergencies when imaging is difficult to obtain or is unavailable. Whole genome microarrays were used to show specific gene expression profiles in rats 24 hours after ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, hypoxia, and hypoglycemia. These proof-of-principle studies revealed that groups of genes (called gene profiles) can distinguish ischemic stroke patients from controls within 3 to 24 hours after the strokes...
September 2011: Journal of Child Neurology