AKT1 and brain infarction: Complementarily, we found that Rac and synaptic adhesion proteins (p120 catenin and N-catenin) are critical for the recovery from and protection against brain infarction (Céspedes-Rubio et al., 2010; Gutiérrez-Vargas et al., 2010; Posada-Duque et al., 2013).