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University of North Carolina Health Care

Brain

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When the gene Rabep2 is deficient, the number and diameter of collateral blood vessels -- normally present during brain development -- are reduced by 50 to 60 percent, and the amount of brain tissue that dies after stroke is more than doubled.

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Courtesy of the Faber lab, UNC School of Medicine

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