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Resolving Thromboinflammation in the Brain After Ischemic Stroke?

Beate E Kehrel¹, Anke C Fender²

¹From Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Experimental and Clinical Haemostasis Research Group, University Hospital Muenster, Germany (B.E.K.); and Institute of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany (A.C.F.). kehrel@uni-muenster.de.

|May 8, 2016

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