Preclinical modelling of militarily relevant traumatic brain injuries: Challenges and recommendations for future directions.
Ibolja Cernak, Donald G Stein, Gregory A Elder, Stephn Ahlers, Kenneth Curley, Ralph G DePalma, John Duda, Milos Ikonomovic, Grant L Iverson, Firas Kobeissy, Vassilis E Koliatsos, Michael J Leggieri, Anthony M Pacifico, Douglas H Smith, Raymond Swanson, Floyd J Thompson, Frank C Tortella
PMID 28981339WHAT IT FOUND
This is a narrative review of preclinical animal models for traumatic brain injury and blast injury.
It reports no patient outcomes, so there is nothing here to change clinical practice.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review and workshop synthesis about animal models for traumatic brain injury and blast injury. It discusses research gaps and recommends future preclinical methods, but it reports no patient outcomes or clinical results, so there is nothing here to change practice.