Blood GFAP as an emerging biomarker in brain and spinal cord disorders

A Abdelhak, M Foschi, S Abu-Rumeileh… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Blood-derived biomarkers for brain and spinal cord diseases are urgently needed. The
introduction of highly sensitive immunoassays led to a rapid increase in the number of …

Blood biomarkers for mild traumatic brain injury: a selective review of unresolved issues

DB Hier, T Obafemi-Ajayi, MS Thimgan, GR Olbricht… - Biomarker …, 2021 - Springer
Background The use of blood biomarkers after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has been
widely studied. We have identified eight unresolved issues related to the use of five …

Evaluation of glial and neuronal blood biomarkers compared with clinical decision rules in assessing the need for computed tomography in patients with mild …

L Papa, JG Ladde, JF O'Brien, JG Thundiyil… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In 2018, the combination of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin C-
terminal hydrolase (UCH-L1) levels became the first US Food and Drug Administration …

Role of UCHL1 in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and brain injury

Z Mi, SH Graham - Ageing research reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
UCHL1 is a multifunctional protein expressed at high concentrations in neurons in the brain
and spinal cord. UCHL1 plays important roles in regulating the level of cellular free ubiquitin …

Thorough overview of ubiquitin C‐terminal hydrolase‐L1 and glial fibrillary acidic protein as tandem biomarkers recently cleared by US Food and Drug Administration …

KKW Wang, FH Kobeissy, Z Shakkour… - Acute Medicine & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity affecting all ages. It
remains to be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge, in which, to date, there is no Food and …

The known unknowns: an overview of the state of blood-based protein biomarkers of mild traumatic brain injury

SJ McDonald, SR Shultz, DV Agoston - Journal of Neurotrauma, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Blood-based protein biomarkers have revolutionized several fields of medicine by enabling
molecular level diagnosis, as well as monitoring disease progression and treatment efficacy …

Sex differences in time course and diagnostic accuracy of GFAP and UCH-L1 in trauma patients with mild traumatic brain injury

L Papa, GM Brophy, W Alvarez, R Hirschl, M Cress… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) and Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase (UCH-L1)
have been FDA-approved for clinical use in mild and moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) …

Inflammatory biomarkers of traumatic brain injury

NH Johnson, R Hadad, RR Taylor, J Rodríguez Pilar… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has a complex pathology in which the initial injury releases
damage associated proteins that exacerbate the neuroinflammatory response during the …

Peripheral blood and salivary biomarkers of blood–brain barrier permeability and neuronal damage: clinical and applied concepts

D Janigro, DM Bailey, S Lehmann, J Badaut… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Within the neurovascular unit (NVU), the blood–brain barrier (BBB) operates as a key
cerebrovascular interface, dynamically insulating the brain parenchyma from peripheral …

One-year prospective study of plasma biomarkers from CNS in patients with mild traumatic brain injury

GJB Clarke, T Skandsen, H Zetterberg… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective: To investigate the longitudinal evolution of three blood biomarkers: neurofilament
light (NFL), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and tau, in out-patients and hospitalized …