Until now, many scientists believed that blood flow within the brain was solely controlled by changes in the diameter of arterioles, blood vessels that branch out from arteries into smaller capillaries.
Cell-saving drugs could reduce brain damage after stroke
- 27 March 2014
- Research
Long-term brain damage caused by stroke could be reduced by saving cells called pericytes that control blood flow in capillaries, suggest researchers from Oxford University, UCL and the University of Copenhagen.