Fluid dynamics vascular theory of brain and inner-ear function in traumatic brain injury: A translational hypothesis for diagnosis and treatment

International Tinnitus Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-129

  Shulman, Abraham ^a,b   Strashun, Arnold M ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Martha Entenmann Tinnitus Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeostasis; Inflammation; Neurodegeneration; Neurovascular; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ELECTROLYTE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; NEUROTRANSMITTER; WATER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FLUID FLOW; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFLAMMATION; INNER EAR; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MENIERE DISEASE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TINNITUS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERTIGO; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COCHLEA; EAR, INNER; ENDOLYMPH; ENDOLYMPHATIC HYDROPS; FLUID SHIFTS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEARING DISORDERS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MENIERE DISEASE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PERILYMPH; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 77949572388     PISSN: 09465448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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