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\n Tuesday, October 7, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by Henry Ford Health System<\/a> <\/div>\n

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The only drug currently approved for treatment of stroke\u2019s crippling effects shows promise, when administered as a nasal spray, to help heal similar damage in less severe forms of traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n

In the first examination of its kind, researchers Ye Xiong, Ph.D, Zhongwu Liu, Ph.D., and Michael Chopp, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute, found in animal studies that the brain\u2019s limited ability to repair itself after trauma can be enhanced when treated with the drug tPA, or tissue plasminogen activator.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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