#ischaemia

FOXC Fixers

Newly discovered role in vessel cells for proteins FOXC1 and FOXC2 as regulators of cell communication to enable intestinal regeneration after injury from loss of blood supply (ischemia)

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Can Tan and colleagues

Department of Medicine, Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in EMBO Reports, May 2023

Blood sugar control after stroke

Reporter and Curator: Dr. Sudipta Saha, Ph.D.

  Stroke is a leading cause of death worldwide and the most common cause of long-term disability amongst adults, more particularly in patients with diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension. Increasing evidence suggests that disordered physiological variables following acute ischaemic stroke, especially hyperglycaemia, adversely affect outcomes.

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