Cerebral Stroke

This book has been written specially for postgraduate students of pharmacology and medical sciences. This book will help the researchers in the area of searching various targets for the management of cerebral stroke. As it is well known that stroke is the world's second leading cause of mortality, and considered the most common cause of disability in adults. The book contains eleven different major headings such as Introduction, Prevalence/ mortality, Symptoms and risk factors, Types of stroke, Pathophysiology of cerebral stroke, Current clinical applications, Antioxidants/herbal drugs and cerebral ischemia, Herbal drugs, Important plants/phytoconstituents used in cerebral stroke, Summary and conclusion and Bibliography. Author has tried to cover the entire spectrum of cerebral stroke, and up-to-date information on molecular mechanisms of cerebral stroke and its management with special reference to herbal drugs with latest references.