Hypoxia, Ischemic Stroke, and Memory Deficits: Prospects for Therapy

Oxygenation of cells and tissues in mammals according to metabolic needs is always a life‐or‐death necessity. Over the last decade, life scientists have gained an impressive understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms in hypoxic‐ischemic injury and memory deficits, survival, and death. Functional recovery from hypoxia‐ischemia depends on how the individual responds to the insult, and whether appropriate responses are initiated and maintained. Unraveling the biochemical and molecular mechanisms and responses of hypoxia‐ischemia is likely to dramatically shape and improve medical practice in the treatments of hypoxia‐ischemia and memory deficits.