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Stroke Interventions in Clinical Trials

Investigational Drugs - by Category

his is a database of drugs in clinical stroke trials, listed alphabetically. Most drugs are listed by both generic and brand names.  Click on drug or therapy name to view published trial results or current clinical trials.  Use the "Back" button of your browser to return to this list.

Click here for a list of agents organized by drug name.  Click here for a list of procedures in clinical trials.

Acute Stroke Therapy
 

Drugs to Improve Blood Flow

Anti-thrombotic
(also see stroke prevention below)

Anti-platelet
(also see stroke prevention below)

Fibrinogen depleting

Improve capillary flow

Thrombolytics

 
Drugs to Protect Brain Tissue
(Neuroprotective Agents)
Calcium channel blockers
Calcium chelator
Free radical scavengers - Antioxidants
GABA agonists
Glutamate antagonists  
Growth factors
Leukocyte adhesion inhibitor
Nitric oxide inhibitor
Opioid antagonists
Phosphatidylcholine precursor
Serotonin agonist
Sodium channel blockers
Potassium channel opener
Mechanism unknown or uncertain

 
Stroke Prevention

 
 
Please note that this is a list of INVESTIGATIONAL treatments which have been tested in animals or humans for treatment of stroke.  Inclusion in this list does not mean that a drug is effective in stroke.  Several drugs here have been shown to be ineffective in acute stroke trials.   Please contact us (goldberg@strokecenter.org) with questions or comments about this page, or to add or change stroke trial information.
  
  

   

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