@inproceedings{548b0881d4dd4d23a8f9a0fa1f6e395a,
title = "Study the efficacy of neuroprotective drugs on brain physiological properties during focal head injury using optical spectroscopy data analysis",
abstract = "We present a comparative evaluation of five different neuroprotective drugs in the early phase following focal traumatic brain injury (TBI) in mouse intact head. The effectiveness of these drugs in terms of changes in brain tissue morphology and hemodynamic properties was experimentally evaluated through analysis of the optical absorption coefficient and spectral reduced scattering parameters in the range of 650-1000 nm. Anesthetized male mice (n=50 and n=10 control) were subjected to weight drop model mimics real life focal head trauma. Monitoring the effect of injury and neuroprotective drugs was obtained by using a diffuse reflectance spectroscopy system utilizing independent source-detector separation and location. Result indicates that administration of minocycline improve hemodynamic and reduced the level of tissue injury at an early phase post-injury while hypertonic saline treatment decrease brain water content. These findings highlight the heterogeneity between neuroprotective drugs and the ongoing controversy among researchers regarding which drug therapy is preferred for treatment of TBI. On the other hand, our results show the capability of optical spectroscopy technique to noninvasively study brain function following injury and drug therapy.",
keywords = "Data analysis, Neuroprotective drugs, Optical and physiological properties., Optical spectroscopy, Traumatic brain injury",
author = "David Abookasis and Ariel Shochat",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SPIE.; Clinical and Translational Neurophotonics; Neural Imaging and Sensing; and Optogenetics and Optical Manipulation ; Conference date: 13-02-2016 Through 16-02-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1117/12.2211625",
language = "אנגלית",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Roe, {Anna W.} and Mohanty, {Samarendra K.} and Jansen, {E. Duco} and Qingming Luo and Thakor, {Nitish V.} and Madsen, {Steen J.} and Yang, {Victor X. D.} and Jun Ding",
booktitle = "Clinical and Translational Neurophotonics; Neural Imaging and Sensing; and Optogenetics and Optical Manipulation",
address = "ארצות הברית",
}