In article <Cz3xGI.606 at festival.ed.ac.uk>, emdu03 at castle.ed.ac.uk ('Chem
Eng Student') writes:
> regarding cell death in strokes and receptor sites
The stroke interrupts the perfusion of blood to some tissue. The waste
products of cellular metabolism are unable to be drawn away. As they are
largely free-radicals or highly reactive, the cell is destroyed by it's
own waste.