Quinolinic acid is increased in CSF and associated with mortality after traumatic brain injury in humans

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 610-615

  Sinz, Elizabeth H ^a   Kochanek, Patrick M ^a,b,e   Heyes, Melvyn P ^c   Wisniewski, Stephen R ^a   Bell, Michael J ^b   Clark, Robert S B ^a,b   DeKosky, Steven T ^a   Blight, Andrew R ^d   Marion, Donald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Head injury; Hypothermia; Inflammation; Kynurenine; Macrophage; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

QUINOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031744449     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004647-199806000-00002     Document Type: Article

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