Trauma-induced axonal injury

Trauma-induced axonal injury (TAI)is an important feature of human TBI. Some investigations have reported that moderate hypothermia can also reduce the generation of traumatically induced axonal injury (6,13). In one study, moderate hypothermia (32°C/4 h) initiated 10 min or 25 min after injury significantly reduced the number of abnormally stained axonal profiles (6). A study by Koizumi and Povlishock (13) reported that posttraumatic hypothermia (32°C/1 h) initiated as late as 1 h after trauma significantly reduced the density of amyloid precursor protein (APP) immunoreacti ve damaged axons within the corticospinal tract. Together, these data indicate that posttraumatic hypothermia in two models of TBI provides substantial protection in terms of axonal... 

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