Cerebral Lactate Metabolism After Traumatic Brain Injury

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1-7

  Patet, Camille ^a   Suys, Tamarah ^a   Carteron, Laurent ^a   Oddo, Mauro ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebral metabolism; Energetic dysfunction; Glucose; Lactate; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; HYDROXYCARBOXYLIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; LACTIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUCOSE;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CEREBRAL METABOLIC RATE OF OXYGEN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COGNITION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLYCOGENOLYSIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCOLYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLIC RATIO; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PILOT STUDY; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INJURY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; NEUROPROTECTION;

EID: 84982843937     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-016-0638-5     Document Type: Review

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