TRPM2 knockout mice showed significantly smaller ischemic lesions, altered expression of GluN2A and GluN2B, and stimulation of pro-survival Akt and ERK signaling in an experimental ischemic stroke model.354 Overall, therapeutic approaches involving drugs, physical treatment, or gene modifications enhancing AKT-related signaling pathways and NMDAR activities could reinforce synaptic NMDAR activities and their neuroprotective effects in ischemic stroke. Here, AKT1 is linked to ischemic stroke.