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Roger Simon, MD
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	Roger Simon, M.D.
	Director, Translational Programs in Stroke Professor, Medicine (Neurology) and Neurobiology Director and Chair, R S Dow Neurobiology Laboratories, Portland Professor and Vice Chairman Neurology, University of California, San Francisco Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK Residency, Neurology, University of California, San Francisco M.D., Cornell Medical College

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Email: rsimon@msm.edu

Endogenous neuroprotective mechanisms in brain.

Endogenous neuroprotection and its actuators in modeled ischemic tolerance. The overall goal is effective treatment of stroke. In the phenomenon of ischemic tolerance, the brain sustains less injury after prolonged ischemia (attenuation of blood flow; stroke) if the prolonged ischemia is preceded by a brief, non-injurious ischemic episode (preconditioning ischemia or transient ischemic attack). This endogenous neuroprotective mechanism that produces ischemic tolerance is conserved across species and the effect is robust. Thus, there is considerable therapeutic potential in dissecting the biological mechanisms that produce tolerance.
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Roger Simon, MD

Endogenous neuroprotective mechanisms in brain.

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