Cerebrovascular Disease
Subtitle: 22nd Princeton Conference
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9780521802543
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; physiopathology; Medical; Cerebrovascular Diseases; Medical / Nursing; Treatment; Pathophysiology; Anatomy; Neurology - General; Cerebrovascular disease--Pathophysiology--Congresses; Medical / Neurology; Diseases - Brain; Cerebrovascular Accident; Cerebrovascular disease; Congresses
First sentence: Growing evidence indicates that the brain's heightened vulnerability to ischemia, in large part, reflects a propensity for its intrinsic cell-cell and intracellular signaling mechanisms, normally responsible for information processing, to turn lethal under ischemic conditions.