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Tau protein linked to chronic brain trauma complications
Monday, August 17, 2015 19:26
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Recent research from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows that a protein that was, until recently, linked only to acute symptoms following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), may also be responsible for long-term and chronic complications following brain injuries.
The details of the study are published in the August 3 issue ofJAMA Neurology.
The team of researchers led by Jessica Gill, Chief of the Tissue Injury Branch at NINR’s Brain Injury Unit, used ultra-sensitive technology (about 1,000 times more sensitive than conventional methods of measurement) to measure levels of the protein, tau, in the blood months and years after individuals suffered traumatic brain injury.
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