Investigational agents for treatment of traumatic brain injury

Y Xiong, Y Zhang, A Mahmood… - Expert opinion on …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability worldwide.
To date, there are no pharmacologic agents proven to improve outcomes from TBI because …

[HTML][HTML] Static and dynamic factors promoting resilience following traumatic brain injury: a brief review

JN Holland, AT Schmidt - Neural plasticity, 2015 - hindawi.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the greatest contributing cause of death and disability among
children and young adults in the United States. The current paper briefly summarizes …

Is genistein neuroprotective in traumatic brain injury?

Z Soltani, M Khaksari, E Jafari, M Iranpour… - Physiology & …, 2015 - Elsevier
The concerns about negative consequences of estrogen therapy have led to introduce other
strategies to obtain estrogen's benefits in the brain. The present study tests the hypothesis …

[HTML][HTML] Estrogen provides neuroprotection against brain edema and blood brain barrier disruption through both estrogen receptors α and β following traumatic brain …

V Naderi, M Khaksari, R Abbasi… - Iranian journal of basic …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective (s): Estrogen (E2) has neuroprotective effects on blood-brain-barrier (BBB) after
traumatic brain injury (TBI). In order to investigate the roles of estrogen receptors (ERs) in …

Correlation of brain levels of progesterone and dehydroepiandrosterone with neurological recovery after traumatic brain injury in female mice

AB Lopez-Rodriguez, E Acaz-Fonseca, S Giatti… - …, 2015 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important cause of disability in humans. Neuroactive
steroids, such as progesterone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), are neuroprotective in …

The brain cytokine levels are modulated by estrogen following traumatic brain injury: Which estrogen receptor serves as modulator?

M Khaksari, E Abbasloo, F Dehghan, Z Soltani… - International …, 2015 - Elsevier
The present study was designed to explore whether administration of estrogen affects brain
cytokine levels in TBI. We also sought determine which one of type of classical estrogen …

Changes in the gene expression of estrogen receptors involved in the protective effect of estrogen in rat׳ s trumatic brain injury

M Khaksari, Z Hajializadeh, N Shahrokhi… - Brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
It has been demonstrated that estradiol has neuroprotective effects after traumatic brain
injury (TBI) in female rats. Since estrogen receptors have an important role in estradiol …

Progesterone alleviates acute brain injury via reducing apoptosis and oxidative stress in a rat experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage model

J Cai, S Cao, J Chen, F Yan, G Chen, Y Dai - Neuroscience letters, 2015 - Elsevier
This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effect of progesterone on acute brain injury
after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Subarachnoid hemorrhage was induced in male …

Progesterone for neuroprotection in pediatric traumatic brain injury

CL Robertson, E Fidan, RM Stanley… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To provide an overview of the preclinical literature on progesterone for
neuroprotection after traumatic brain injury and to describe unique features of …

[HTML][HTML] Neurosteroids and traumatic brain injury: translating biomarkers to therapeutics; overview and pilot investigations in Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans

CE Marx, JC Naylor, JD Kilts, CE Dunn, LA Tupler… - 2015 - europepmc.org
Neurosteroids are endogenous molecules that are enriched in the brain (where they can be
synthesized de novo from cholesterol) and also produced in the adrenals, gonads, and other …