Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in blast-exposed military veterans and a blast neurotrauma mouse model

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 134, 2012, Pages

  Goldstein, Lee E ^a,b,c   Fisher, Andrew M ^a,c   Tagge, Chad A ^a,c   Zhang, Xiao Lei ^d   Velisek, Libor ^d   Sullivan, John A ^d   Upreti, Chirag ^d   Kracht, Jonathan M ^c   Ericsson, Maria ^e   Wojnarowicz, Mark W ^a   Goletiani, Cezar J ^d   Maglakelidze, Giorgi M ^d   Casey, Noel ^a,b   Moncaster, Juliet A ^a,b   Minaeva, Olga ^a,b,c   Moir, Robert D ^f   Nowinski, Christopher J ^a   Stern, Robert A ^a   Cantu, Robert C ^a,g   Geiling, James ^h   Blusztajn, Jan K ^a   Wolozin, Benjamin L ^a   Ikezu, Tsuneya ^a   Stein, Thor D ^a,i   Budson, Andrew E ^a,i   Kowall, Neil W ^a,i   Chargin, David ^b   Sharon, Andre ^b,c   Saman, Sudad ^j   Hall, Garth F ^j   Moss, William C ^k   Cleveland, Robin O ^l   Tanzi, Rudolph E ^f   Stanton, Patric K ^d   McKee, Ann C ^a,i   more..

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g EMERSON HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^k LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARMY; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BLAST NEUROTRAUMA; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTBALL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATHLETES; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEAD; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PHOSPHORYLATION; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAU PROTEINS; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861110318     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003716     Document Type: Article

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