Therapeutic vaccination for closed head injury.

abstract：:Predicting outcome after pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is important for providing information to families and prescribing rehabilitation services. Previously published studies evaluating the ability of serum biomarkers to predict outcome after pediatric TBI have focused on three markers: neuron-specific enola...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Berger RP,Hayes RL,Richichi R,Beers SR,Wang KK

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physician prescribed rest after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is both commonplace and an increasingly scrutinized approach to TBI treatment. Although this practice remains a standard of patient care for TBI, research of patient outcomes reveals little to no benefit of prescribed rest after TBI, and in some cases prolon...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Karelina K,Schneiderman K,Shah S,Fitzgerald J,Velazquez Cruz R,Oliverio R,Whitehead B,Yang J,Weil Z

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated corticomotor excitability and inhibition, cognitive functioning, and fine motor dexterity in retired elite and amateur Australian football (AF) players who had sustained concussions during their playing careers. Forty male AF players who played at the elite level (n=20; mean age 49.7±5.7 years)...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Pearce AJ,Hoy K,Rogers MA,Corp DT,Maller JJ,Drury HG,Fitzgerald PB

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant outflow of neurotransmitters and metabolites with associated enhanced cortical excitation occurs after concussive head trauma. Cellular changes in the acute post-injury period cannot be observed directly in humans, and as such, require indirect evidence from systems sufficiently sensitive to central neur...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： La Fountaine MF,Toda M,Testa A,Bauman WA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a health threat that affects every year millions of people involved in motor vehicle and sporting accidents, and thousands of soldiers in battlefields. Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is one of the most frequent types of TBI leading to death. In DAI, the initial traumatic event is followed ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Zhu F,Gatti DL,Yang KH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle strength was assessed from the maximum force that could be exerted voluntarily by triceps brachii muscles of 72 people with chronic cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) at or above C7, and 18 able-bodied (A-B) subjects. The magnitude of co-activation was estimated from the ratio of biceps brachii surface EMG to tr...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Thomas CK,Tucker ME,Bigland-Ritchie B

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to define the relationships among clinical characteristics of chronic pain, injury characteristics, affective factors and autonomic dysreflexia (AD) in people with chronic cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). A survey containing questions concerning the presence of AD, demographic factors, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Widerström-Noga E,Cruz-Almeida Y,Krassioukov A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) can cause permanent disabilities that seriously reduce quality of life. We evaluated the effects of chronic hyperglycemia before SCI on inflammatory markers and functional recovery after SCI in human patients and a rat model. In the human study, multivariate logistical regression ana...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Park KS,Kim JB,Keung M,Seo YJ,Seo SY,Mun SA,Lee YS,Cho DC,Hwang JH,Han I,Kim CH,Kim KT

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative energy metabolism is depressed after mild/moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) during early development, accompanied by behavioral debilitation and secondary neuronal death. A TBI metabolome analysis revealed broad effects with a striking impact on energy metabolism. Our studies on mitochondrial modulators ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Chitturi J,Santhakumar V,Kannurpatti SS

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) is a common symptom following traumatic brain injury. Although this transient memory deficit implies specific impairment of higher brain function, the actual pathophysiology of PTA is not well understood. The aim of this study was to assess regional cerebral hemodynamics with perfusion comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Metting Z,Rödiger LA,de Jong BM,Stewart RE,Kremer BP,van der Naalt J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of the immediate excitotoxic phase occurring in response to spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major issue to reduce the neuronal damage responsible for any ensuing motor deficits. The present study evaluated the neuroprotective efficacy of three noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonists: Gacyclidine (GK-11), a n...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Feldblum S,Arnaud S,Simon M,Rabin O,D'Arbigny P

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several behavioral factors such as violence, impulsivity, and alcohol-related problems are associated with traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI). Such factors have been associated with inherently low neuronal serotonergic capacity that in turn is reflected in low activity of monoamine oxidase (MAO) as measured in platel...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Sabre L,Harro J,Eensoo D,Vaht M,Kabel V,Pakkanen M,Asser T,Kõrv J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotational acceleration of the head, as occurs in falls, car crashes, and sport injuries, may result in diffuse brain damage, with acute and chronic neurological and psychiatric symptoms. The present study addresses the effects of rotational trauma on the neuronal cytoskeleton, which stabilizes perikaryal, dendritic a...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Hamberger A,Huang YL,Zhu H,Bao F,Ding M,Blennow K,Olsson A,Hansson HA,Viano D,Haglid KG

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging may be an important factor affecting brain injury by intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). In the present study, we investigated the responses of glial cells and monocytes to intracerebral hemorrhage in normal and aged rats. ICH was induced by microinjecting autologous whole blood (15 microL) into the striatum of youn...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Lee JC,Cho GS,Choi BO,Kim HC,Kim WK

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much recent research has focused on the pathological significance of calcium accumulation in the central nervous system (CNS) following cerebral ischemia, spinal cord injury (SCI), and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Disturbances in neuronal calcium homeostasis may result in the activation of several calcium-sensitive e...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Kampfl A,Posmantur RM,Zhao X,Schmutzhard E,Clifton GL,Hayes RL

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the effects of two novel N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blockers and ifenprodil derivatives, CP-101,606 and CP-101,581, and their racemic mixture CP-98,113, on spatial memory and regional cerebral edema following experimental fluid-percussion (FP) brain injury in the rat (n = 66). Fif...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Okiyama K,Smith DH,White WF,Richter K,McIntosh TK

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of the progressive cascade of damage referred to as secondary spinal cord injury (SCI) is vascular disruption resulting in decreased oxygen delivery and loss of mitochondria homeostasis. While therapeutics targeting restoration of single facets of mitochondrial function have proven largely ineffective clini...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Scholpa NE,Williams H,Wang W,Corum D,Narang A,Tomlinson S,Sullivan PG,Rabchevsky AG,Schnellmann RG

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimum spinal cord perfusion pressure (SCPP) after traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) is unknown. Here, we describe techniques to compute and display the optimum SCPP in real time. We recruited adults within 72 h of severe TSCI (American Spinal Injuries Association [ASIA] grades A-C). A pressure probe and a micr...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Chen S,Smielewski P,Czosnyka M,Papadopoulos MC,Saadoun S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of fine motor skills after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is variable, with some patients showing progressive improvements over time while others show poor recovery. We therefore studied possible cellular mechanisms accompanying the recovery process in a non-human primate model system, in which the lateral fron...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Nagamoto-Combs K,Morecraft RJ,Darling WG,Combs CK

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to an immunocompromised state responsible for an increased morbidity and mortality. Our understanding of the mechanisms responsible for this brain damage is incomplete. Damage maybe mediated by a complex cascade of neuroinflammation, and cytokine activation. In addition, trans...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Mazzeo AT,Kunene NK,Gilman CB,Hamm RJ,Hafez N,Bullock MR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental enhancement of noradrenergic activity following traumatic brain injury (TBI) accelerates behavioral recovery if performed at a time when brain norepinephrine (NE) turnover is decreased. But, since NE turnover is markedely increased immediately after TBI, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the ef...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Dunn-Meynell AA,Yarlagadda Y,Levin BE

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the major causes of death in younger age groups. In Umeå, Sweden, an intracranial pressure (ICP) targeted therapy protocol, the Lund concept, has been used in treatment of severe TBI since 1994. Decompressive craniectomy is used as a protocol-guided treatment step. The pri...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Olivecrona M,Rodling-Wahlström M,Naredi S,Koskinen LO

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous meta-analyses of methylprednisolone (MPS) for patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injuries (TSCIs) have not addressed confidence in the quality of evidence used for pooled effect estimates, and new primary studies have been recently published. We aimed to determine whether MPS improves motor recovery an...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Evaniew N,Belley-Côté EP,Fallah N,Noonan VK,Rivers CS,Dvorak MF

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects millions of individuals each year and is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. TBI is heterogeneous and outcome is influenced by a combination of factors that include injury location, severity, genetics, and environmental factors. More recently, sex as a biological var...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Giordano KR,Rojas-Valencia LM,Bhargava V,Lifshitz J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no established biomarkers for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), in part because post-concussive symptoms (PCS) are subjective and conventional imaging is typically unremarkable. To test whether diffuse axonal abnormalities quantified with three-dimensional (3D) proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imagi...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Kirov II,Tal A,Babb JS,Reaume J,Bushnik T,Ashman TA,Flanagan S,Grossman RI,Gonen O

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) disrupts hippocampal function and can lead to long-lasting episodic memory impairments. The encoding of episodic memories relies on spatial information processing within the hippocampus. As the primary entry point for spatial information into the hippocampus, the dentate gyrus is tho...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Folweiler KA,Samuel S,Metheny HE,Cohen AS

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute subdural hemorrhage (ASDH) is common and associated with severe morbidity and mortality. To date, the role of spontaneous cortical spreading depression (sCSD) in exaggerating secondary injury after ASDH, is poorly understood. The present study contains two experimental groups: First, we investigated and characte...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Krenzlin H,Jussen D,Plath M,Tretzel SJ,Krämer T,Kempski O,Alessandri B

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and functional disability in western countries, affecting mostly young patients. Despite intense and sustained efforts deployed for the development of new therapeutic strategies, no clinical benefit has been shown by any of the investigated compounds. Increasing...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Soustiel JF,Palzur E,Nevo O,Thaler I,Vlodavsky E

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory cellular responses to brain injury are promoted by proinflammatory messengers. Cyclooxygenases (prostaglandin endoperoxide H synthases [PGH]) are key enzymes in the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostanoids, which mediate immunomodulation, mitogenesis, apoptosis, blood flow, secondary injury (lipid ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Schwab JM,Seid K,Schluesener HJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent models of spinal cord injury are critical for the development of treatments for upper limb motor impairment in humans, but there are few methods for measuring forelimb strength of rodents, an important outcome measure. We developed a novel robotic device--the Robotic Rehabilitator of the Rodent Upper Extremity ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Sharp KG,Duarte JE,Gebrekristos B,Perez S,Steward O,Reinkensmeyer DJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00