Model System:

TBI

Reference Type:

JA

Accession No.:

Journal:


Brain Injury

Year, Volume, Issue, Page(s):

, 22, 8-Jul, 6112-615

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Abstract:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: To determine if plasma levels of 24S-hydroxycholesterol, the primary catabolite of brain cholesterol, provide a measure of axonal damage in acute brain trauma. RESEARCH DESIGN: Determination of plasma 24S-hydroxycholesterol in a series of persons admitted to an intensive care unit for treatment of closed head injury. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: Levels of 24-S-hydroxycholesterol, 27-hydroxycholesterol, lathosterol and total cholesterol were measured in peripheral blood from 38 persons from 14-55 years of age treated by craniotomy and ventriculostomy for intractable intracerebral hypertension. Severity of brain injury was estimated by the Glasgow Coma Scale (range = 3-13, median = 6 points) and overall injury by the Injury Severity Scale (range = 10-48, median = 29). All subjects were intubated and anaesthetized with intravenous propofol. Plasma sterol levels were compared with those of age-matched control subjects. OUTCOMES AND RESULTS: There was no significant increase in plasma 24-S-hydroxycholesterol in subjects with head injury, but measures of peripheral cholesterol synthesis were markedly reduced as compared with values for age-matched normal control subjects. CONCLUSION: Plasma 24S-hydroxycholesterol levels do not change with severe closed head injury.

Author(s):


Weiner, M. F., Vega, G. L., Diaz-Arrastia, R., Moore, C., Madden, C., Hudak, A., Lutjohann, D.

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