Los Angeles: : A major study at the University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA) found that brain starts self-repair to function normally after a general silent stroke.
The researchers at the UCLA Health Sciences studied the behavior of the brain cells in animals after a stroke. The findings are believed to be a major breakthrough in the white matter stroke treatment, a common silent stroke.
White matter stroke is a major brain dysfunction, which blocks the blood vessels with oxygen to reach the brain. These strokes generally go undetected but build up as time passes and effects the brain memory, problem-solving, planning process leading to Alzheimer or dementia.
“White matter stroke is an important clinical target for the development of new therapies,” Carmichael said.
The senior researcher at UCLA, Dr. Thomas Carmichael believe that there are not many known facts about the brain recovery process in this very commonly prevailing stroke.
The team of researchers analyzed the event of strokes in animals and observed that the brain send replacement cells as soon as the stroke happens but is blocked by a molecular receptor. The scientists then used techniques to arrest such behavior from the receptor and found the animals started to recover from the stroke with repair process becoming normal after the receptor was blocked.
The paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, will help the scientists to find new therapies for preventing white matter stroke, which is one of the major silent strokes affecting U.S. with almost 130,000 deaths reported.
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