Calpain as a Therapeutic Target in Traum
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Kathryn E. Saatman; Jennifer Creed; Ramesh Raghupathi
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Article
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2010
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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The family of calcium-activated neutral proteases, calpains, appears to play a key role in neuropathologic events following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Neuronal calpain activation has been observed within minutes to hours after either contusive or diffuse brain trauma in animals, suggesting that c