Towards clinical management of traumatic brain injury: A review of models and mechanisms from a biomechanical perspective

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1325-1338

  Namjoshi, Dhananjay R ^a   Good, Craig ^b   Cheng, Wai Hang ^a   Panenka, William ^a   Richards, Darrin ^c   Cripton, Peter A ^a   Wellington, Cheryl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Collision Analysis Ltd ^*  (Canada)

^c Synaptic Analysis Consulting Group Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INJURY; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DURA MATER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLIOSIS; GRAY MATTER; HEAD INJURY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MORTALITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PULSE PRESSURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888865479     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.011320     Document Type: Review

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