Platelet-dependent injury and safeguard mechanisms in acute ischaemic stroke (B02)

Subject Area Clinical Neurology; Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology
Molecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells
Term from 2018 to 2023
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 374031971
 

Project Description

We have shown that platelets and immune cells jointly drive penumbral tissue loss and ischaemia/reperfusion injury under and after middle cerebral artery occlusion in mice, and confirmed the concept of thrombo-inflammation in the human system using local pial blood samples obtained directly from the cerebral collateral circulation. As next steps we will characterise the contribution of platelet-derived DAMPs and platelet-dependent neutrophil effects on stroke development and collateral blood flow in a tandem experimental/human approach.
DFG Programme CRC/Transregios
Subproject of TRR 240:  Platelets – Molecular, cellular and systemic functions in health and disease
Applicant Institution Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Project Heads Professor Dr. Mirko Pham; Professor Dr. Michael Schuhmann, since 7/2022; Professor Dr. Guido Stoll