Stroke: pathophysiology from the biomedical system perspective and its equivalent in the traditional Chinese medicine

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. From a pathophysiological perspective, strokes are triggered by brain tissue hypoxia, which produces a functional and structural damage of the interconnected cellular and non-cellular network formed by the neurovascular unit and the extracellul...

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Main Authors: Alba Fernanda Ruiz-Mejía, Germán Enrique Pérez-Romero, Mauricio Alberto Ángel-Macías
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2017-01-01
Series:Revista de la Facultad de Medicina
Subjects:
Qi
Online Access:https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/revfacmed/article/view/57508