SAN ANTONIO — Part of a naturally made protein might speed recovery in brain tissue that gets starved of oxygen and nutrients when a blood clot lodges in the brain and causes a stroke. Researchers tested a human recombinant version of a natural protein fragment, called perlecan domain V, on rats and mice in which they induced strokes.
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