A multi-laboratory preclinical trial in rodents to assess treatment candidates for acute ischemic stroke

PD Lyden, MA Diniz, F Bosetti, J Lamb… - Science translational …, 2023‏ - science.org
Human diseases may be modeled in animals to allow preclinical assessment of putative
new clinical interventions. Recent, highly publicized failures of large clinical trials called into …

Minimal clinically important difference of scales reported in stroke trials: a review

B Mishra, P Sudheer, A Agarwal, N Nilima… - Brain Sciences, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
There is a growing awareness of the significance of using minimum clinically important
differences (MCIDs) in stroke research. An MCID is the smallest change in an outcome …

CNS drug delivery in stroke: improving therapeutic translation from the bench to the bedside

PT Ronaldson, EI Williams, RD Betterton, JA Stanton… - Stroke, 2024‏ - ahajournals.org
Drug development for ischemic stroke is challenging as evidenced by the paucity of
therapeutics that have advanced beyond a phase III trial. There are many reasons for this …

Biological and procedural predictors of outcome in the Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN) trial

A Morais, T Imai, X **, JJ Locascio… - Circulation …, 2024‏ - ahajournals.org
BACKGROUND: The SPAN trial (Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network) is the largest
preclinical study testing acute stroke interventions in experimental focal cerebral ischemia …

Cofilactin rod formation mediates inflammation-induced neurite degeneration

G Uruk, E Mocanu, AE Shaw, JR Bamburg… - Cell reports, 2024‏ - cell.com
Stroke, trauma, and neurodegenerative disorders cause loss of neurites (axons and
dendrites) in addition to neuronal death. Neurite loss may result directly from a primary …

Uric acid: a translational journey in cerebroprotection that spanned preclinical and human data

EC Leira, AM Planas, AK Chauhan, A Chamorro - Neurology, 2023‏ - neurology.org
Uric acid (UA) is a strong endogenous antioxidant that neutralizes the toxicity of peroxynitrite
and other reactive species on the neurovascular unit generated during and after acute brain …

An update on stem cell therapy for stroke patients: Where are we now?

J Gordon, CV Borlongan - Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
With a foundation built upon initial work from the 1980s demonstrating graft viability in
cerebral ischemia, stem cell transplantation has shown immense promise in promoting …

Embracing heterogeneity in the multicenter Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN) trial

A Morais, JJ Locascio, LH Sansing, J Lamb… - Stroke, 2023‏ - ahajournals.org
The Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN) is a multicenter preclinical trial platform
using rodent models of transient focal cerebral ischemia to address translational failure in …

Climbing the STAIRs to SPAN the clinical translation gap: recent advances in multicenter preclinical stroke trials

RJ Turner, TD Farr - Stroke, 2024‏ - ahajournals.org
The earliest published randomized controlled multicenter preclinical stroke trial assessed
the potential for anti-CD49d antibodies to inhibit the inflammatory response. 7 This treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Evolving Clinical–Translational Investigations of Cerebroprotection in Ischemic Stroke

Y Li, LE Schappell, C Polizu, J DiPersio… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Ischemic stroke is a highly morbid disease, with over 50% of large vessel stroke (middle
cerebral artery or internal carotid artery terminus occlusion) patients suffering disability …