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Clotbusting Powers of tPA: Beside the Point in Stroke?

By Anette Breindl
Science Editor

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Tissue-plasminogen activator (tPA, sold as Activase by Roche AG) is the only stroke treatment that has made it to the market at all, amidst a bevy of failed attempts to develop additional stroke drugs. But its limitations are twofold.

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