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ReviewThe AAPS journal2017

Microdialysis Monitoring in Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Role in Neuroprotective Drug Development.

Eric Peter Thelin, Keri L H Carpenter, Peter J Hutchinson, Adel Helmy

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Review in The AAPS journal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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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

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Focally administered succinate improves cerebral metabolism in traumatic brain injury patients with mitochondrial dysfunction.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2022
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  3. The effect of an adenosine AFluids and barriers of the CNS · 2018
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  4. The microdialysis-derived lactate-pyruvate gradient indicates anaerobic activity after brain injury.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026
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  7. Traumatic Brain Injury and Coenzyme Q10: An Overview.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  19. Imaging Guidance for Therapeutic Delivery: The Dawn of Neuroenergetics.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eric Peter ThelinDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK. eric.thelin@ki.se.
Keri L H CarpenterDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
Peter J HutchinsonDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
Adel HelmyDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

Department of Health NIHR-RP-R3-12-013Medical Research Council G0600986Medical Research Council G0802251Medical Research Council G1002277
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Injuries to the central nervous system continue to be vast contributors to morbidity and mortality; specifically, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most common cause of death during the first four decades of life. Several modalities are used to monitor patients suffering from TBI in order to prevent detrimental secondary injuries. The microdialysis (MD) technique, introduced during the 1990s, presents the treating physician with a robust monitoring tool for brain chemistry in addition to conventional intracranial pressure monitoring. Nevertheless, some limitations remain, such as limited spatial resolution. Moreover, while there have been several attempts to develop new potential pharmacological therapies in TBI, there are currently no available drugs which have shown clinical efficacy that targets the underlying pathophysiology, despite various trials investigating a plethora of pharmaceuticals. Specifically in the brain, MD is able to demonstrate penetration of the drug through the blood-brain barrier into the brain extracellular space at potential site of action. In addition, the downstream effects of drug action can be monitored directly. In the future, clinical MD, together with other monitoring modalities, can identify specific pathological substrates which require tailored treatment strategies for patients suffering from TBI.

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AnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierBrainBrain Injuries, TraumaticDrug DesignHumansMicrodialysisNeuroprotective AgentsTissue DistributionNeuroprotective Agentsdrug deliveryhumanmicrodialysismonitoringpharmacokineticstraumatic brain injury

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