{"id":4546,"date":"2020-08-31T10:44:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:44:30","slug":"new-stroke-mechanism-published-by-dr-rajkumar-verma-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2020\/08\/31\/new-stroke-mechanism-published-by-dr-rajkumar-verma-team\/","title":{"rendered":"New Stroke Mechanism published by Dr. Rajkumar Verma &amp; Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-contain\">\n<div class=\"hfeed site\" id=\"page\">\n<div class=\"site-content\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"content-area\" id=\"primary\">\n<article class=\"post-163593 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-health category-research tag-health tag-research tag-school-of-medicine tag-uconn-health campus-farmington\" id=\"post-163593\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-lg-9\">\n<div class=\"row entry-content\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<p>As published in UConn <strong>Today<\/strong> &#8211; August 19, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4548\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4548 lazyload\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-272x182.jpg 272w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 269px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 269\/179;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\" wp-image-4548\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/08\/Verma-Lab-stroke-mechanism-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doctors consult over an MRI scan of the brain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many people who suffer a stroke are permanently disabled. Stroke remains the leading cause of long-term disability in the United States. Paralysis of one side of the body, speech and language problems, vision problems and memory loss are some of the major consequences of stroke injury.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, nearly 800,000 people in the United States have a stroke. Even with recent advances in treatments to reduce damage and enhance recovery after stroke, solutions are significantly lacking.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, UConn School of Medicine researchers published a paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32289314\/\">Experimental Neurology<\/a> showing how they successfully inhibited an important receptor implicated in post-stroke damage and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers specifically looked at ischemic stroke, which comprises 87% of strokes. Ischemic stroke occurs when there is a blockage in an artery leading to the brain. This reduces the amount of blood and oxygen getting to the brain, causing damage or death of brain cells.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/08\/new-mechanism-stroke-treatment-shows-successful-proof-concept\/\">Read more about this new stroke mechanism that Dr. Rajkumar Verma and his team found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As published in UConn Today &#8211; August 19, 2020 &nbsp; Many people who suffer a stroke are permanently disabled. Stroke remains the leading cause of long-term disability in the United States. Paralysis of one side of the body, speech and language problems, vision problems and memory loss are some of the major consequences of stroke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 08:09:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}