“…If swelling is present, which can dampen vascular flow, the damaging effects on healthy cells may even be more pronounced due to osmotic shock, changes in pH, ionic/amino acid spillage, and CO 2 accumulation (Dreier et al., ; Hartings et al., ). Slight imbalances in ionic state, specifically [K + ] and pH/CO 2 , may contribute to the onset of epilepsy and other neurological diseases (Kaila & Ransom, ; Nedergaard, Kraig, Tanabe, & Pulsinelli, ; Mellergard & Siesjo, ; Mahad, Trapp, & Lassmann, ; Tregub, Kulikov, Motin, Bespalov, & Osipov, ; Andrianopoulos et al., ). In such individuals, additional insults may have an additive or synergistic effect.…”