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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2009

Multifunctional drugs for head injury.

Robert Vink, Alan J Nimmo

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Enhancement of the liver's neuroprotective role ameliorates traumatic brain injury pathology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  10. Aberrant cortical spine dynamics after concussive injury are reversed by integrated stress response inhibition.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  13. Cell Death and Recovery in Traumatic Brain Injury.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020
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  14. Resilience to Injury: A New Approach to Neuroprotection?Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert VinkSchool of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia. Vink@adelaide.edu.au
Alan J Nimmo

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide in individuals under the age of 45 years, and, despite extensive efforts to develop neuroprotective therapies, there has been no successful outcome in any trial of neuroprotection to date. In addition to recognizing that many TBI clinical trials have not been optimally designed to detect potential efficacy, the failures can be attributed largely to the fact that most of the therapies investigated have been targeted toward an individual injury factor. The contemporary view of TBI is that of a very heterogenous type of injury, one that varies widely in etiology, clinical presentation, severity, and pathophysiology. The mechanisms involved in neuronal cell death after TBI involve an interaction of acute and delayed anatomic, molecular, biochemical, and physiological events that are both complex and multifaceted. Accordingly, neuropharmacotherapies need to be targeted at the multiple injury factors that contribute to the secondary injury cascade, and, in so doing, maximize the likelihood of a successful outcome. This review focuses on a number of such multifunctional compounds that have shown considerable success in experimental studies and that show maximum promise for success in clinical trials.

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AnimalsBrain EdemaBrain InjuriesCyclosporineDronabinolErythropoietinHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsKininsMagnesiumMinocyclineMitochondriaNeuroprotective AgentsOxidative StressProgesteronePsychotropic DrugsCyclosporineDronabinolErythropoietinHU 211Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsKininsMagnesiumMinocyclineNeuroprotective AgentsProgesteronePsychotropic DrugsThyrotropin-Releasing HormoneToll-Like Receptors

Identifiers

PMID19110197
PMCPMC5084254

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