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After MCA stroke, human intracerebral temperature is higher than central body-core temperature. There is also a temperature gradient within the brain, with the ventricles warmer than the surface. Mild hypothermia in the treatment of severe cerebral ischemia with use of cooling blankets is both easy to perform and effective in the therapy of severe hemispheric infarction.

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Cells prepared from the body walls of chicken embryos were plated in the absence of serum. Insulin‐like growth factors (IGFs) barely stimulated cell replication, but preferentially enhanced the differentiation of muscle cells. Myoblast fusion was favoured in the presence of IGF (or insulin). Concomitantly, acetylcholinesterase activity increased. IGF I and IGF II were equipotent and active in low physiological concentrations, in contrast to insulin, which was known for a long time to exert such effects at pharmacological concentrations.