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A role for fibronectin in self-repair after ischemic injury

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Plasma fibronectin has been proposed to play a role in wound healing. Studies with conditional knockout mice, however, indicate that fibronectin has more to do with protecting cells from ischemic damage after stroke (pages 324-330).

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Figure 1: Diagram of fibronectin.

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