Stroke Damage Is Less in Rats Given Opioids, National Institutes of Health (NIH) And University of South Florida Study

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EurekAlert -- Using an opioid drug to induce a hibernatory state in rats reduces the damage caused by an artificial stroke. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology have shown that those animals put into the chemical fugue suffered less behavioral dysfunctions after a period of cerebral artery blockage than control rats.

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