microRNA Look-Alike Accelerates Post-Stroke Recovery in Rodents (IMAGE)

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microRNA Look-Alike Accelerates Post-Stroke Recovery in Rodents

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Treating young rats with a mimic of the miR-7 microRNA (right column) improved motor function recovery and decreased the volume of lesions in the brain (red outline) compared to untreated rats (left column). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 12, 2018, issue of Science Signaling , published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Kim at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisc.; and colleagues was titled, "The microRNA miR-7a-5p ameliorates ischemic brain damage by repressing α-synuclein."

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T. Kim <i>et al., Science Signaling </i>(2018)

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