Back Again to the Future: A New Era for Cerebroprotection
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1Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Abstract:
In multiple disease areas, neurology has failed to translate promising treatments from positive preclinical studies to successful clinical trial results. Despite this history, we persist in testing new, putative neuroprotectants using the same concepts, approaches, and methods without much modification. Recent novel data and new concepts offer an opportunity to break with past doctrine decisively, and open a new era of different approaches, methods, and strategies for studying future protections for brain injury. Cerebroprotection is a fresh framework for designing neurological therapy that targets glia and vascular cells, in addition to neurons. ANN NEUROL 2026;99:19-34.
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