Event Abstract Back to Event Penetrating- and rotatonal traumatic brain injury; differentiation of the underlying pathobiology Elham Rostami1* 1 Karolinska Institutet, Department of neuroscience, Sweden Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a complex disease involving multiple pathological processes depending on the type of the primary injury. Regardless of the type of injury, the primary injury initiates complex secondary biochemical and physiological processes. The secondary process proceeds over hours and days and involve both harmful and compensatory events. The major secondary events include inflammation, alteration of cytoskeleton, neuronal- and glial cell death and also repair and regeneration. In order to better understand the pathobiologies of TBI we use the two animal models developed in our lab that mimics distinct injury processes. The first model is a rotational TBI (rot-TBI) animal model that mimics the physical forces of sagittal acceleration-deceleration that produces traumatic diffuse axonal injury. The second model is a penetration TBI (pen-TBI) animal model that produces a direct focal injury on the parenchyma with disruption of dura. We have analyzed the temporal pattern of expression of complement factors and other selected protein biomarkers in these two models, both in brain and serum. Our results show that the two models have different local- and temporal pattern of expression for complement factors and release of different biomarkers. Although, we have not indentified any biomarker that is unique for rot-TBI or pen-TBI, our findings suggests that there are patterns of different biomarkers that can be used to define a more specific fingerprint of each TBI. This would contribute in the diagnosis of various forms of TBI and also in evaluation and treatment of TBI patients and may even provide prediction of outcome of the future impairments of the patients. Keywords: biomarkers, complement, DAI Conference: Karolinska Institutet 200 years anniversary Symposium on Traumatic Injuries in the Nervous System, Stockholm, Sweden, 15 Sep - 16 Sep, 2010. Presentation Type: Presentation Topic: Traumatic Injuries in the Nervous System Citation: Rostami E (2010). Penetrating- and rotatonal traumatic brain injury; differentiation of the underlying pathobiology. Front. Neurol. Conference Abstract: Karolinska Institutet 200 years anniversary Symposium on Traumatic Injuries in the Nervous System. doi: 10.3389/conf.fneur.2010.56.00004 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 16 Sep 2010; Published Online: 21 Sep 2010. * Correspondence: Dr. Elham Rostami, Karolinska Institutet, Department of neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden, elham.rostami@neuro.uu.se Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Elham Rostami Google Elham Rostami Google Scholar Elham Rostami PubMed Elham Rostami Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.