153 results about "Brain traumas" patented technology

The invention discloses a rapid detection method for traumatic brain injury by fusing genetic engineering and quantum dots, and relates to the technical field of traumatic brain injury detection. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a suspected patient biological sample, extracting biomolecule components, and comparing the biomolecule components with a healthy population biomolecule database to obtain related differential expression molecules. A specifically recognizable recombinant antibody is constructed by genetic engineering, and is connected with a quantum dot through a coupling reaction to prepare a detection probe. The probe and a biological sample are mixed and reacted, and the intensity of a fluorescence signal generated by combination is collected by a fluorescence detection device. A standardized signal value is obtained through signal processing algorithm noise reduction and feature extraction, and a preliminary detection result is determined by combining a bioinformatics database evaluation sample. And finally, according to the differential expression molecule, the standardized signal value and the preliminary result, analyzing a data change trend in a preset time window by using a multivariable statistical model, and generating a diagnosis report. According to the method, various technologies are fused, and a new path is provided for traumatic brain injury detection.

The invention provides multifunctional bionic hydrogel as well as preparation and application thereof in traumatic brain injury treatment, and belongs to the field of biomedical materials. The preparation method comprises the following steps: combining polydopamine modified hemoglobin nanoparticles with curcumin-based carbon quantum dots with anti-inflammatory activity, and embedding into bionic hyaluronic acid-collagen double-network hydrogel, so as to prepare the multifunctional bionic hydrogel. The hydrogel can effectively relieve neuron hypoxia, reduce apoptosis, promote the polarity of microglial cells to be converted into anti-inflammatory phenotype, and significantly down-regulate the expression of S100A8, thereby inhibiting pathological neural immune crosstalk. In a traumatic brain injury model, hydrogel implantation improves the pathological microenvironment, enhances endogenous nerve regeneration, and ultimately results in significant neurological function and cognitive recovery. The multifunctional bionic hydrogel prepared by the invention has a good application prospect in preparation of materials for preventing and / or treating traumatic brain injury.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical instruments, and discloses a surgical instrument for building a traumatic brain injury mouse model.The surgical instrument comprises a tube blade, a limiter, a holding piece and a vacuum device, the tube blade is used for rotationally cutting into brain tissue of a mouse, the limiter is movably installed on the tube blade in the axial direction of the tube blade, and the vacuum device is arranged on the holding piece; the limiting device is used for abutting against the skull of the mouse, the holding piece is provided with an airflow channel, one end of the holding piece is connected with the pipe blade, one end of the airflow channel is communicated with the pipe blade, and the vacuum device is connected to the other end of the holding piece and connected with the other end of the airflow channel. According to the surgical instrument for building the traumatic brain injury mouse model, the problems that an injury area is uncontrollable and a focus area is difficult to quantify and unify in the current traumatic brain injury mouse model building process can be solved, so that the success rate and efficiency of model building are improved to the maximum extent.

The present inventive concept provides methods of determining whether a subject has cortical or cerebral visual impairment (CVI) as well as determining whether the subject has a traumatic brain injury thereby allowing treatment for these conditions. The present inventive concept also provides a standardized method for assessing pediatric or adolescent visual acuity.

Provided herein are 19-nor C3, 3-disubstituted steroids of Formula (I); and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as defined herein, and A is a heteroaryl ring system comprising 3 or 4 nitrogens as defined herein. Such compounds are contemplated useful for the prevention and treatment of a variety of CNS-related conditions, for example, treatment of sleep disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, convulsive disorders, disorders of memory and / or cognition, movement disorders, personality disorders, autism spectrum disorders, pain, traumatic brain injury, vascular diseases, substance abuse disorders and / or withdrawal syndromes, and tinnitus.

Methods for treating injuries to the central nervous system with a cilia activator are provided. The injury may be a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Related pharmaceutical compositions are provided.

Sublingual or buccal dosage forms comprise at least one antioxidant compound, such as N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The sublingual or buccal dosage forms are administered for treating central nervous system (CNS) disorders, such as traumatic brain injury or stroke.

The head protection helmet comprises a protection helmet structure, U-shaped component force ropes are fixedly installed at the positions, close to the edges of the two sides, of the lower end opening of the protection helmet structure, and anti-disengaging elastic bands are connected to the middles of the surfaces of the two U-shaped component force ropes. A buffering protection structure is fixedly installed on the inner side surface of the protection helmet structure in a nested mode, D breathable mesh cloth is fixedly installed on the inner side surface of the buffering protection structure, the protection helmet structure comprises alloy plastic and an outer-layer soft package, and the outer surface of the alloy plastic is fixedly wrapped with the outer-layer soft package. According to the head protection helmet for the patient with the craniocerebral injury, the head protection helmet for the patient with the craniocerebral injury can be adaptively inflated according to the size of the head of the patient so that the head protection helmet can be fixedly worn in an attached mode, and therefore the head protection helmet is more stable to wear; and the patient can be further protected through two air bag buffer layers, namely the tensioning air bag and the protection air bag.

Disclosed are therapeutic methods comprising the delivery of particular substituted pyridine based compounds for lowering intracranial pressure (ICP) and / or lowering neurogenic inflammation in treating substance P mediated pathways in the brain such as, but not limited to concussion, post-concussive (or post-concussion) syndrome (PCS), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke.

The present invention provides novel markers of the severity of a central nervous system injury, such as spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury, in a patient. In particular, protein components of inflammasomes in the cerebrospinal fluid that can be used to assess the severity of central nervous system injury in a patient are disclosed. Methods of using such protein biomarkers to determine a prognosis, direct treatment and rehabilitation efforts, and monitor response to treatment for a patient with a central nervous system injury are also described.

Provided are systems, methods, and devices for providing mediation of a traumatic brain injury. Systems may include an interface, processing devices, and a controller. The interface is configured to obtain measurements from a brain of a user with a traumatic brain injury. A first processing device is configured to generate multiple brain state parameters characterizing one or more features of a brain state of the user. A second processing device is configured to generate models of the brain of the user based on the plurality of brain state parameters and the plurality of measurements, and determine, using the models and training data comprising one or more mediation data points, a mediation procedure for reducing one or more symptoms of the traumatic brain injury. The mediation procedure is provided to one or more entities, and one or more control signals are generated by the controller based on the mediation procedure.

Disclosed are compounds, compositions, and methods for inhibiting tyrosine-mediated DNA repair in a neuroprotective manner and / or activating transcription and / or protein synthesis. Compositions include a resveratrol, such as cis-resveratrol, or a compound of Formula I or Formula II. Compounds of Formula I and Formula II have the following structureswhere the variables, e.g., Y1, Y2, Y3, R1, R2, R3 the A-ring, and W are defined herein. Said compound and compositions may be utilized in treating aging and age-associated neurocognitive and metabolic disorders including various types of cancer. In particular, compositions disclosed herein are neuroprotective against tyrosine / phenylalanine or their metabolites-mediated neurodegeneration and neurocognitive disorders. The disclosure also includes combination pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment in which cis-resveratrol, a compound of Formula I, a compound of Formula II, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is used in combination with a GLP-1 receptor agonist for treating a traumatic brain injury or a neurodegenerative disorder.

This invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions, including compositions adapted for intranasal administration, comprising an active ingredient, including dexmedetomidine, pomalidomide, a selective phosphodiesterase type 4 inhibitor such as roflumilast, or combinations thereof, useful in the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI), including to prevent or reduce the neurological sequalae of TBI.

Disclosed is a method of method of treating a disease in a subject, comprising the step of administering to a subject in need thereof a solution of a solid pharmaceutical composition containing a compound of formula (I) and / or formula (II), wherein the disease is selected from the group consisting of traumatic brain injury, non-traumatic brain injury, elevated cranial pressure, witha compound having formula (I) being:and a compound having the formula (II) being:

Provided herein are 19-nor C3, 3-disubstituted steroids of Formula (I); and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as defined herein, and A is a heteroaryl ring system comprising 3 or 4 nitrogens as defined herein. Such compounds are contemplated useful for the prevention and treatment of a variety of CNS-related conditions, for example, treatment of sleep disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, convulsive disorders, disorders of memory and / or cognition, movement disorders, personality disorders, autism spectrum disorders, pain, traumatic brain injury, vascular diseases, substance abuse disorders and / or withdrawal syndromes, and tinnitus.

This invention relates to animal models and their applications, specifically to a method for constructing a spontaneous mouse cerebral edema model and its application. This invention utilizes PEN2... fl / + Mice and PEN2 fl / + Mice were mated to obtain PEN2. fl / fl Homozygous mice; then the obtained PEN2 fl / fl Mice and hGFAP Cre / + Mice were mated to obtain PEN2. fl / + hGFAP Cre / + Mice; the final PEN2 obtained fl / + hGFAP Cre / + Mice and PEN2 fl / fl Mice were mated to obtain PEN2. fl / fl hGFAP Cre / + The mouse model is a spontaneous mouse cerebral edema model. In this model, PEN2 protein levels are significantly downregulated, and the mouse exhibits a severe cerebral edema phenotype. This model can be used to establish a cerebral edema drug screening platform. It can also be used for research on cerebral edema-related diseases, such as the pathogenesis of cerebral edema caused by infection, glioma, and traumatic brain injury, as well as for the development of technologies and products for the diagnosis and treatment of related diseases.

The present application relates to the technical field of intelligent analysis and injury identification of traffic accidents, and discloses a pedestrian-oriented repetitive brain injury risk identification method, which comprises the following steps: constructing an accident database containing human-vehicle and human-ground secondary collision; simulating and restoring the accident scene and extracting head acceleration time history and brain tissue maximum principal strain; performing time-frequency decomposition by wavelet packet transform and calculating wavelet packet energy; linearly weighting and fusing the brain tissue strain of the two collisions by taking the energy proportion as a weighting coefficient to obtain a multi-modal fusion index; constructing a damage probability model based on Weibull distribution, completing parameter maximum likelihood estimation through Bernoulli likelihood function, establishing a damage risk curve, verifying and optimizing the damage risk curve, and finally forming a practical brain injury risk identification curve. The present application comprehensively uses time domain, frequency domain and strain information, quantifies the cumulative damage effect of repetitive collision, effectively improves the comprehensiveness and accuracy of pedestrian brain injury evaluation, and is suitable for vehicle safety design and traffic accident injury identification.

The application discloses a kind of bioengineered apoptotic bodies based on apoptotic body membrane protein and liposome and preparation method and application thereof.The bioengineered apoptotic bodies are formed by the chimerization of apoptotic body membrane protein and liposome loaded with gastrodin and Cy5.The bioengineered apoptotic bodies simulating the natural apoptosis process of mesenchymal stem cells can promote the polarization of microglial cells to M2 type, release anti-inflammatory factors and neurotrophic factors, promote the proliferation of neurons, improve the antioxidant capacity of cells, improve the nervous motor function, relieve brain edema, and thus effectively treat traumatic brain injury.

The application discloses a carrier for engineering miR-124-3p The application discloses an application of an exosome hydrogel in preparation of a drug for treating traumatic brain injury, and belongs to the technical field of biological carrier drug delivery. miR-124- 3p The exosome vesicle structure can improve the stability of the miRNA in the body and the delivery efficiency of the miRNA into nerve cells, thereby enhancing the bioavailability. The engineering exosome is embedded in the QCC / OHM hydrogel system, so that the engineering exosome forms a stable delivery platform at the injury site, realizes sustained release and local enrichment of the exosome. The hydrogel material has good tissue adaptability, can enter irregular brain injury interstitial spaces through minimally invasive injection and form a scaffold structure, and provides a favorable microenvironment for nerve repair. The application can overcome the problems of poor stability of treatment molecules, short local retention time and difficulty in realizing multi-mechanism synergistic treatment, and provides a new technical scheme for treatment of traumatic brain injury.

A method, a structure, and a computer system for traumatic event detection. The exemplary embodiments may include collecting data using sensors worn by a user and identifying a traumatic event based on applying a model to the data, wherein the model correlates values of the data with traumatic events and traumatic brain injuries. The exemplary embodiments may further include identifying the traumatic brain injury resulting from the traumatic event.

The invention relates to methods and kits for assessing brain injury, e.g., traumatic brain injury resulting from blast exposure. The invention provides methods of quantifying the amount of phosphorylated tau or total tau in a biological sample. The invention further provides a method of determining the number of blast exposures experienced by a subject. Also provided herein are kits for detecting phosphorylated tau or total tau in a biological sample.

The invention relates to the technical field of craniocerebral injury biomechanical analysis, discloses a semi-automatic craniocerebral injury index CSDM extraction method, and aims to improve CSDM extraction efficiency, applicability and flexibility. The method comprises the following steps: a brain tissue area display state pre-selection step: importing a head model simulation result file into post-processing software, screening and retaining brain tissue entity unit components, hiding irrelevant components and recording parameters; a strain and volume frame-by-frame output step: compiling an automatic script based on a post-processing software secondary development function to realize frame-by-frame output of unit data; and an automatic operation step: automatically calculating the CSDM value of each frame based on the output file through a Matlab calculation program. According to the method, the problems that manual extraction is low in efficiency and prone to errors and a full-automatic method is poor in universality are solved through a manual preprocessing and automatic calculation fusion mode, and the method is suitable for various head models and supports craniocerebral injury mechanism research and clinical assistance.

The present invention relates to the field of brain injuries. More specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions useful in the diagnosis / prognosis / assessment of brain injuries. In a specific embodiment, a method for identifying which patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) require ahead computerized tomography (CT) scan for diagnosing acute intracranial pathology comprises the steps of (a) obtaining or collecting a sample from the patient; (b) measuring the levels of one or more biomarkers in the blood sample obtained from the patient, wherein the biomarkers comprise glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), S100B, metallothionein 3 (MT3), neuron specific enolase (NSE) and intracellular adhesion molecule 5 (ICAM5); and (c) identifying the patient as requiring or not requiring a head CT scan based on the measured levels of one or more of biomarkers comprising GFAP, S100B, MT3, NSE and ICAM5.

The invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for derepressing RE1 silencing transcription factor (REST) target genes are provided. In particular, a peptide having the sequence TEDLEPPEPPLPKEN (SEQ. ID NO: 1) and EDLEPPEPPLPK (SEQ. ID NO: 15), or the reversed sequences made of D-amino acids (retro inverted, RI) nekplppeppeldet (SEQ ID NO: 16) and kplppeppelde (SEQ ID NO: 17), are disclosed for inhibiting REST activity. The peptides are useful to treat, prevent, or ameliorate conditions such as traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, dementia, Huntington's Disease (HD), chronic pain, brain cancer (including glioblastoma multiforme), pancreatic cancer; diabetes, and peripheral nerve injury

Novel compounds of Formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of NLRP3 and may be useful in the treatment, prevention, management, amelioration, control and suppression of diseases mediated by NLPR3. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment, prevention or management of diseases, disorders and conditions mediated by NLRP3 such as, but not limited to, obesity, gout, pseudogout, CAPS, NASH, MASH, fibrosis, heart failure, idiopathic pericarditis, atopic dermatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and traumatic brain injury.

The invention relates to the technical field of biological medicine and polymer targeted delivery, and provides an oligodendrocyte-derived exosome and application thereof in preparation of a medicine for treating traumatic brain injury. Comprising the following steps: separating and culturing primary oligodendroglia cells from brain tissues; placing the maturely cultured oligodendroglia cells in a sugar-free and serum-free culture medium, performing oxygen-glucose deprivation treatment in an anoxic environment, then continuously culturing in a normal sugar-containing culture medium under a normal oxygen condition, and collecting cell culture supernate; and separating the exosome of the oligodendroglia cells subjected to oxygen-glucose deprivation treatment from the supernate by adopting a gradient ultracentrifugation method to obtain the exosome of the oligodendroglia cells subjected to oxygen-glucose deprivation treatment. The exosome derived from the oligodendroglia is applied to preparation of the medicine for treating the traumatic brain injury and has the advantages of being high in targeting performance and good in penetrability, that is, the exosome is used as a natural carrier, the defect that a traditional traumatic brain injury medicine is difficult to penetrate through a blood brain barrier is perfectly overcome, and the exosome can efficiently enter brain tissue and be taken by microglia.

3H-pyrazolo[4,3-f]quinoline compounds that inhibit interferon gene-stimulating factor (STING); compositions comprising the same compounds; and their use for the treatment of STING-related diseases, such as STING-related inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, cancer, traumatic brain injury, and fibrosis.

Disclosed herein are methods of aiding in the diagnosis and evaluation of a subject that has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head. For example, the present disclosure provides methods for aiding in the diagnosis and evaluation of a subject to determine whether the subject has sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) by detecting or measuring a combination of the levels of ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in samples taken at various time points within 48 hours after the subject has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head.