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• Cleaning the brain after ischemic stroke

  18-10-2021 16:00
  Researchers identify the role of cell receptor CD300a in efferocytosis, a process by which dead cells are eliminated from the body. Mice deficient in CD300a exhibited an increase in efferocytosis in the brain following the induction of stroke and treatment with a CD300a-blocking antibody lessened the severity of neurological symptoms in stroke-induced mice. CD300a may represent a potential target for therapy in the treatment of ischemic stroke.
  
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• ‘Where’s the logic?’: how England’s ‘no jab, no job’ policy will hit a care worker

  18-10-2021 12:55
  
  Debbie Vickers is among tens of thousands of care home staff likely to lose jobs because of Covid vaccine rulesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCarol Thomas, a retired health academic who lives with multiple sclerosis, is about to lose not just a carer but a companion because of the government’s “no jab, no job” policy.Unless the policy is changed, which looks unlikely after the health secretary, Sajid Javid, this month told un-jabbed care worke
  
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