ReviewFrontiers in neurology2017
Serial Sampling of Serum Protein Biomarkers for Monitoring Human Traumatic Brain Injury Dynamics: A Systematic Review.
Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06163833 (MATRIx), which is not on this map. Cited by 162 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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MATRIx: MesenchymAl Stromal Cells for Traumatic bRain Injury
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162 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 234 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between neurofilament light chain concentrations and outcomes in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Neuron-Specific Enolase as a Biomarker for Selected Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders-A Systematic Review of the Literature.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Genetic and peripheral biomarkers of comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of early adjunctive pharmacotherapy on serum levels of brain injury biomarkers in patients with traumatic brain injury: a systematic review of randomized controlled studies.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- GFAP and S100B: What You Always Wanted to Know and Never Dared to Ask.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Blood-Based Protein Biomarkers for the Management of Traumatic Brain Injuries in Adults Presenting to Emergency Departments with Mild Brain Injury: A Living Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of neurotrauma · 2021Pooled it
- Toward a global and reproducible science for brain imaging in neurotrauma: the ENIGMA adult moderate/severe traumatic brain injury working group.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of Ulinastatin on Early Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction in Elderly Patients Undergoing Surgery: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
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- A randomized controlled trial on the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of metformin in severe traumatic brain injury.Journal of neurology · 2019Trial
- Neurofilaments support the differentiation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from degenerative cervical myelopathy.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Article
- Mild and repetitive mild traumatic brain injury: Changes in microglial cells and synapses.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- Elevated Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Is Associated With Systemic Inflammation in Very Preterm Infants.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Catch-and-display immunoassay for digital biomarker detection.Nanoscale horizons · 2026Article
- A Dynamic and Complex Early Inflammatory Response in Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: A Dual Platform Analysis.Inflammation · 2026Observational
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Abstract
backgroundThe proteins S100B, neuron-specific enolase (NSE), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), and neurofilament light (NF-L) have been serially sampled in serum of patients suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI) in order to assess injury severity and tissue fate. We review the current literature of serum level dynamics of these proteins following TBI and used the term "effective half-life" ( MATERIALS AND
methodsThrough searches on EMBASE, Medline, and Scopus, we looked for articles where these proteins had been serially sampled in serum in human TBI. We excluded animal studies, studies with only one presented sample and studies without neuroradiological examinations.
resultsFollowing screening (10,389 papers),
conclusionSerial sampling of brain-specific proteins in serum reveals different temporal trajectories that should be acknowledged. Proteins with shorter serum availability, like S100B, may be superior to proteins such as NF-L in detection of secondary harmful events when monitoring patients with TBI.
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