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Accession Number:
AD1038958
Title:
Combined Effects of Primary and Tertiary Blast on Rat Brain: Characterization of a Model of Blast-Induced Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Corporate Author:
The Geneva Foundation Tacoma United States
Report Date:
2016-05-01
Abstract:
We hypothesize that the biomechanical perturbations of the brain that yield blast-induced mTBI in injured warfighters can be recreated with reasonable fidelity in rats under carefully controlled experimental conditions, and that several of the characteristic sequelae of blast-induced mTBI observed clinically can be reproduced in a rodent injury model. In many, if not most circumstances yielding blast mTBI, brain injury results from a combination of blast overpressure BOP i.e. primary blast and head acceleration andor impact i.e. tertiary blast. The mTBI resulting from these combined insults may be fundamentally different from that seen from either insult alone.
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report,01 Mar 2011,28 Feb 2016
Pages:
0166
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release;
File Size:
11.91MB
