The implication of neurovascular unit signaling in controlling the subtle balance between injury and repair following ischemic stroke

摘要

Neurovascular unit(NVU):Brain microvasculature has a close structural and functional relationship with brain parenchyma,an aspect governed by the NVU(Hermann and El Ali,2012).The concept of it was introduced by the Stroke Progress Review Group who defined it as triad of neurons,glia(astrocytes and microglia)。