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Serum biomarkers to evaluate the integrity of the neurovascular unit.

Abstract
Biomarkers have the potential to enable the clinicians to screen infants for brain injury, monitor progression of disease, identify injured brain regions, assess efficacy of neuroprotective therapies, and offer hope to identify the timing of the injury, thus shedding light on the potential pathophysiology and the most effective therapy. Currently, clinicians do not routinely use biomarkers to care for neonates with Neonatal Encephalopathy (NE) and brain injury due to prenatal hypoxia-asphyxia. This review will cover potential biomarkers of the neurovascular unit in the setting of NE that (i) can help assess the degree or severity of encephalopathy at birth; (ii) can help monitor progression of disease process and efficacy of neuroprotective therapy; (iii) can help assess neurodevelopmental outcome. These biomarkers will be summarized in two categories: 1) Specific biomarkers targeting the neurovascular unit such as glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), S100B, and neuron specific enolase (NSE) and 2) general inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-1b (IL-1b), and pNF-H, among others.
AuthorsImran N Mir, Lina F Chalak
JournalEarly human development (Early Hum Dev) Vol. 90 Issue 10 Pg. 707-11 (Oct 2014) ISSN: 1872-6232 [Electronic] Ireland
PMID25064445 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
CopyrightCopyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Chemical References
  • Biomarkers
  • Cytokines
  • Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
  • S100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunit
  • S100B protein, human
  • Ubiquitin carboxyl-Terminal Hydrolase L-1, human
  • Ubiquitin Thiolesterase
  • Phosphopyruvate Hydratase
Topics
  • Biomarkers (blood)
  • Brain (blood supply)
  • Cytokines (blood)
  • Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (blood)
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain (blood, physiopathology)
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Phosphopyruvate Hydratase (blood)
  • Regional Blood Flow (physiology)
  • S100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunit (blood)
  • Ubiquitin Thiolesterase (blood)

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