Inflammation relates to chronic behavioral and neurological symptoms in military personnel with traumatic brain injuries

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1169-1177

  Devoto, Christina ^a   Arcurio, Lindsay ^a   Fetta, Joseph ^a   Ley, Mary ^a   Rodney, Tamar ^b   Kanefsky, Rebekah ^a   Gill, Jessica ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Inflammation; Mild traumatic brain injury; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SHORT FORM 36; SOLDIER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BIOMARKERS; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85032022798     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: 15553892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963689717714098     Document Type: Article

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