Characterization of a cervical spinal cord hemicontusion injury in mice using the infinite horizon impactor.

abstract：:This study characterized the Infinite Horizon (IH) Impactor for use in mouse models of contusion spinal cord injury (SCI), and investigated the feasibility and reliability of using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a method to accurately measure lesion volume after mouse contusion SCI. Eight-week-old female C57Bl/6 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Nishi RA,Liu H,Chu Y,Hamamura M,Su MY,Nalcioglu O,Anderson AJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Although several functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have been conducted in human models of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), to date no studies have explicitly examined how injury may differentially affect both the positive phase of the hemodynamic response function (HRF) as well as the po...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Mayer AR,Toulouse T,Klimaj S,Ling JM,Pena A,Bellgowan PS

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although sleep-wake disturbances are prevalent and well described after traumatic brain injury, their pathophysiology remains unclear, most likely because human traumatic brain injury is a highly heterogeneous entity that makes the systematic study of sleep-wake disturbances in relation to trauma-induced histological ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Noain D,Büchele F,Schreglmann SR,Valko PO,Gavrilov YV,Morawska MM,Imbach LL,Baumann CR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate new pharmacologic agents with potentially beneficial effects on posttraumatic spinal cord function, we used a modified weight drop (WD) technique to induce spinal cord injuries. These contusive spinal cord injuries in the rat closely mimic the human clinicopathologic situation. Especially for drug screenin...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： van de Meent H,Hamers FP,Lankhorst AJ,Buise MP,Joosten EA,Gispen WH

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against the progression of secondary injury appears to be an effective therapeutic strategy in spinal cord injury (SCI). Evidence indicates that nicotine can induce potent neuroprotective effects against injury to spinal cord neurons. Therefore, the present study was focused on the effects of nicotine on th...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Ravikumar R,Fugaccia I,Scheff SW,Geddes JW,Srinivasan C,Toborek M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine dysfunction is common after accidental traumatic brain injury (TBI). Prevalence of endocrine dysfunction after inflicted traumatic brain injury (iTBI) is not known. The aim of this study was to examine endocrinopathy in children after moderate-to-severe iTBI. Children with previous iTBI (n=14) were evaluated...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Auble BA,Bollepalli S,Makoroff K,Weis T,Khoury J,Colliers T,Rose SR

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present data correlating the time courses of hydroxyl radical (.OH) production, lipid peroxidation, and blood-brain barrier (BBB) damage following unilateral head injury in the rat. Using a controlled cortical impact device to inflict head injury, we have directly measured brain .OH levels via the salicylate trappi...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Smith SL,Andrus PK,Zhang JR,Hall ED

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies have shown that neurons within the spinal cord are sensitive to response-outcome relations, a form of instrumental learning. Spinally transected rats that receive shock to one hind leg learn to maintain the leg in a flexed position that minimizes net shock exposure (controllable shock). Prior exposure to...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Grau JW,Washburn SN,Hook MA,Ferguson AR,Crown ED,Garcia G,Bolding KA,Miranda RC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage in lowering high intracranial pressure (ICP) is well established in severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Recently, however, the use of external ventricular drains (EVDs) and ICP monitors in TBI has come under question. The aim of this retrospective study was to i...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Akbik OS,Krasberg M,Nemoto EM,Yonas H

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Athletes in contact sports sustain repetitive subconcussive head impacts in a brief window, yet neurophysiological sequelae from repetitive subconcussion remain unclear. This prospective longitudinal study examined a relationship between changes in plasma Tau protein levels and subconcussive impact kinematic data in 2...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Kawata K,Rubin LH,Wesley L,Lee JH,Sim T,Takahagi M,Bellamy A,Tierney R,Langford D

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A new experimental model was developed to induce diffuse brain injury (DBI) in rats through pure coronal plane angular acceleration. An impactor was propelled down a guide tube toward the lateral extension of the helmet fixture. Upon impactor-helmet contact, helmet and head were constrained to rotate in the coronal pl...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Fijalkowski RJ,Stemper BD,Pintar FA,Yoganandan N,Crowe MJ,Gennarelli TA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The canine double hemorrhage model is an established model to study cerebral vasospasm, the late sequelae of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The present study uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine the recently reported early brain injury after SAH. Double hemorrhage SAH modeling was obtained by injecting 0.5...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Jadhav V,Sugawara T,Zhang J,Jacobson P,Obenaus A

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has been shown to protect cranial and spinal motoneurons, which suggests potential uses of GDNF in the treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI) and motor neuron disease. We examined neuroprotective effect of cationic liposome-mediated GDNF gene transfer in vivo on axonal...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Lu KW,Chen ZY,Jin DD,Hou TS,Cao L,Fu Q

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can be associated with partial or total smell loss. Recent studies have suggested that olfactory outcome can be positively modulated after olfactory training (OT). This study's aim was to investigate OT's potential role in smell recovery after TBI-induced olfactory loss. A prospective, ran...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Langdon C,Lehrer E,Berenguer J,Laxe S,Alobid I,Quintó L,Mariño-Sánchez F,Bernabeu M,Marin C,Mullol J

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although atrophic changes have been well described following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans, little is known concerning the mechanisms or progression of brain tissue loss. In the present study, we evaluated the temporal profile of histopathological changes following parasagittal fluid-percussion (FP) brain inj...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Smith DH,Chen XH,Pierce JE,Wolf JA,Trojanowski JQ,Graham DI,McIntosh TK

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between endothelin-1 (ET-1), a prominent vasoactive agent, and the breakdown of the blood-spinal cord barrier along the axis of the cord after a moderate spinal cord injury. In the first study rats (n = 10) were euthanized 24 h after spinal cord injury and co...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： McKenzie AL,Hall JJ,Aihara N,Fukuda K,Noble LJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse axonal injury is recognized as a progressive and long-term consequence of traumatic brain injury. Axonal injury can have sustained negative consequences on neuronal functions such as anterograde and retrograde transport and cellular processes such as autophagy that depend on cytoarchitecture and axon integrity...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Hensley K,Poteshkina A,Johnson MF,Eslami P,Gabbita SP,Hristov AM,Venkova-Hristova KM,Harris-White ME

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Penetrating traumatic brain injury (PTBI) is one of the major cause of death and disability worldwide. Previous studies with penetrating ballistic-like brain injury (PBBI), a PTBI rat model revealed widespread perilesional neurodegeneration, similar to that seen in humans following gunshot wound to the head, which is ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Spurlock MS,Ahmed AI,Rivera KN,Yokobori S,Lee SW,Sam PN,Shear DA,Hefferan MP,Hazel TG,Johe KK,Gajavelli S,Tortella FC,Bullock RM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides related to melanotropin (alphaMSH) and corticotropin (ACTH), collectively termed melanocortins, are known to improve the postlesion repair of injured peripheral nerves. In addition, melanocortins exert trophic effects on the outgrowth of neurites from central nervous system neurons in vitro. Here we report, f...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Joosten EA,Majewska B,Houweling DA,Bär PR,Gispen WH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent calls have been made for the inclusion of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in traumatic brain injury studies. This study reports the impact of TBI on traditional measures (general health, depression, social isolation, labor force participation), self-assessed health function status using the SF-36 version...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Hawthorne G,Gruen RL,Kaye AH

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable advances have been made in pharmacologic treatments of acute and chronic spinal cord injury. The recent National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study (NASCIS) showed that very high dose methylprednisolone given within 8 hr after injury improves neurologic recovery. The mechanism is believed to be inhibition of li...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Nockels R,Young W

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stretching of cultured neurons has been used to model diffuse axonal injury associated with brain trauma. N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) activation and group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are implicated in the pathophysiology of such injury. Here we detail the effects of culture condition and mGlu...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Lea PM 4th,Custer SJ,Stoica BA,Faden AI

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test if observed vs. expected mortality differs by age among traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases, a population-based, historical cohort study was conducted in Olmsted County, Minnesota. From all residents with any diagnosis suggestive of TBI 1985-1999, we randomly sampled 7,800 and reviewed their medical records to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Flaada JT,Leibson CL,Mandrekar JN,Diehl N,Perkins PK,Brown AW,Malec JF

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon dioxide is perhaps the most potent available modulator of cerebrovascular tone and thus cerebral blood flow (CBF). These experiments evaluate the impact of induced hypercarbia on the matching of blood flow and metabolism in the injured brain. We explore the hypothesis that hypercarbia will restore the relations...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Glass TF,Fabian MJ,Schweitzer JB,Weinberg JA,Proctor KG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multipotent neural progenitors and stem cells may integrate appropriately into the developing and degenerating central nervous system. They may also be effective in the replacement of genes, cells, and nondiffusible factors in either a widespread or a more circumscribed manner, depending on the therapeutic demands of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Park KI,Liu S,Flax JD,Nissim S,Stieg PE,Snyder EY

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) often occurs in conjunction with additional trauma, resulting in secondary complications, such as hypotension as a result of blood loss. This study investigated the combined effects of penetrating ballistic-like brain injury (PBBI) and hemorrhagic shock (HS) on physiological parameters, in...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Leung LY,Wei G,Shear DA,Tortella FC

更新日期：2013-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Closed-head concussive injury is one of the most common causes of traumatic brain injury (TBI). While single concussions result in short-term neurologic dysfunction, multiple concussions can result in cumulative damage and increased risk for neurodegenerative disease. Despite the prevalence of concussion, knowledge ab...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Chen Z,Leung LY,Mountney A,Liao Z,Yang W,Lu XC,Dave J,Deng-Bryant Y,Wei G,Schmid K,Shear DA,Tortella FC

更新日期：2012-01-20 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：:Accurate localization of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistula in a patient with CSF rhinorrhea is challenging and often involves multiple imaging studies with associated expense and patient discomfort. Intrathecal contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) and unenhanced magnetic resonance (MR) cisternography using const...

journal_title：Journal of neurotrauma

authors： Goel G,Ravishankar S,Jayakumar PN,Vasudev MK,Shivshankar JJ,Rose D,Anandh B

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00