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Feasibility of progesterone treatment for ischaemic stroke

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posted on 2017-07-12, 12:22 authored by Claire L. Gibson, Philip M. Bath
Two multi-centre phase III clinical trials examining the protective potential of progesterone following traumatic brain injury have recently failed to demonstrate any improvement in outcome. Thus, it is timely to consider how this impacts on the translational potential of progesterone treatment for ischaemic stroke. A wealth of experimental evidence supports the neuroprotective properties of progesterone, and associated metabolites, following various types of central nervous system injury. In particular, for ischaemic stroke, studies have also begun to reveal possible mechanisms of such neuroprotection. However, the results in traumatic brain injury now question whether further clinical development of progesterone for ischaemic stroke is relevant.

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Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2016, 36 (3), pp. 487-491

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY/MBSP Non-Medical Departments/Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour

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Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

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SAGE Publications

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0271-678X

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1559-7016

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2015-07-11

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2015

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2017-07-12

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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0271678X15616782

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en

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