Role of calcium influx and modulation of local neurotransmitters as hallmarks of pediatric traumatic brain injury

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-97

  Jagannathan, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; FREE RADICAL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN C JUN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AGE; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEOMICS; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 68049102993     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/bmm.09.1     Document Type: Editorial

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