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Cerebral uric acid increases following experimental traumatic brain injury in rat
E C Tayag1, S N Nair, S Wahhab
1Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19102-1192, USA.
Brain Research
|September 16, 1996
Abstract:
Following traumatic brain injury (TBI), cortical and thalamic areas were analyzed histologically and by high-performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection for uric acid at various survival times. Following TBI, cortical uric acid was elevated by ten-fold at 24 and 48 h, but not at 1 h post-TBI. Histological evidence of neurodegeneration was found not only in cortex but also in the anteroventral thalamus. These data suggest that as in stroke, uric acid measurements may be a convenient and sensitive method for measuring peroxidative status in TBI.