This opinion piece highlights the scientific literature reporting that the peripheral immune response to ischemic stroke originates from the spleen. Removal of the spleen not only reduces stroke-induced neurodegeneration but also cellular degeneration in the body's other tissues when exposed to ischemic conditions.
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Pennypacker et al. (2014) studied this question.
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