Objectives: To explore the diagnostic utility of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), S100β protein and dDimer for differentiation between cases of acute stroke compared to CT findings as a gold-standard diagnostic modality. Patients & Methods: The study included 80 patients; 51 males and 29 females with mean age of 49.6±6.8 years. Mean time lapsed since occurrence of symptoms till sampling ...

We investigated the expression levels and clinical significance of S100β protein in patients with vascular dementia (VD) after basal ganglia hemorrhage. From June 2014 to December 2015, in 138 patients with basal ganglia hemorrhage, we carried out the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in patients on the day before the operation, the day after the oper...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between brain damage biomarkers and mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS The sample comprised 70 patients admitted to an ICU. Blood samples were collected from all patients on ICU admission, and levels of S100β and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) were determined by ELISA. RESULTS Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) ...

OBJECTIVES Erythropoietin has been shown to exert neuroprotective effects in a variety of CNS injury models. Elevation of serum S100β, as a glial damage marker and myelin basic protein (MBP) has been reported to occur in acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of erythropoietin (EPO) on serum S100β and MBP levels after CO poisoning in rats. MATER...

Herein we have demonstrated a novel protocol to integrating two immunoassay procedures for performing a sequential dual-protein determination, based on a chemiluminescence (CL) substrate-resolved technology. We evaluated our method for the sequential determination of S100β and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) by using alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as two different lab...

We investigated the possible role of 7-nitroindazole (7-NI) in regulating serum neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and S100β levels in a rat model of traumatic brain injury (TBI). We also explored the possible mechanism by which 7-NI may affect the level of NSE and S100β. A total of 160 healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 2 groups: i) The saline-treated group and ii) th...

s100ß a neurotrophic factor mainly released by astrocytes, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of bipolar disorder. thus, lithium may exert its neuroprotective effects to some extent through s100ß. furthermore, the possible effects of lithium on astrocytes as well as on interactions between neurons and astrocytes as a part of its mechanisms of actions are unknown. this study was undertaken...

objective(s) erythropoietin has been shown to exert neuroprotective effects in a variety of cns injury models. elevation of serum s100β, as a glial damage marker and myelin basic protein (mbp) has been reported to occur in acute carbon monoxide (co) poisoning. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of erythropoietin (epo) on serum s100β and mbp levels after co poisoning in rats. mater...

BACKGROUND Neuroprotective strategies to prevent or decrease brain injury in hypoxic ischemic newborns are one of the main research lines in neonatology. Animal models have been used to assess the efficiency of new therapeutic strategies. Brain damage biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are frequently used to evaluate the outcome at the bedside. Despite the importance of this approach in cl...