Time-dependent cytokine and chemokine changes in mouse cerebral cortex following a mild traumatic brain injury
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious global health concern, many individuals live with TBI-related neurological dysfunction. A lack of biomarkers of TBI has impeded medication development. To identify new potential biomarkers, we time-dependently evaluated mouse brain tissue and neuronally derived plasma extracellular vesicles proteins in a mild model of TBI with parallels to concussive head injury. Mice (CD-1, 30–40 g) received a sham procedure or 30 g weight-drop, and were euthanized 8, 24, 48, 72, 96 hours, 7, 14 and 30 days later. We quantified ipsilateral cortical proteins. Many of them differed from 8 hours onwards post mTBI compared to sham, 23 proteins changed in 4 or more of 8 different time points. Gene ontology pathways mapped from altered proteins over time related to pathological and physiological processes. Further validation of proteins identified in this study may provide utility as treatment response biomarkers.
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National Institutes of Health (AG000944)
- Nigel H Greig
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Animal experimentation: AlI animal studies were conducted at the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA. Experimental animal protocols were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging (438-TGB-2022) and were in compliance with the guidelines for animal experimentation of the National Research Council (Committee for the Update of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 2011) and the National Institutes of Health (DHEW publication 85-23, revised, 1995).
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