Grant: DUKE UNIVERSITY
Primary Recipient
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Amount
$429,000.00
Award Date
5/15/2009
Administering Agency
Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health
CDFA Number
93.701
CDFA Program Title
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support
Description
Ischemic stroke is caused by cerebral blood flow (CBF) inadequate to allow brain tissue survival. It is known from humans treated with tissue plasminogen activator that ischemic tissue can be salvaged from infarction by thrombolytic CBF restoration. This