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Cascade of damage is one of popular theory in the research of ischemic stroke. Its successfully summarized the occurance, development and result of local ischemia on the view of pathophysilogy according to the turn of time. This damage includes 4 processes, they are: excitotoxicity, peri-infarct depolarizations, inflammation and apoptosis. Among them, excitotoxicity and peri-infarct depolarizations take on in the first 24 hours after cerebral ischemia, owing to the shortage ...