Open AccessPhosphorylated neurofilament heavy: A potential blood biomarker to evaluate the severity of acute spinal cord injuries in adults
Author(s) -
Ajai Singh,
Vineet Kumar,
Shahid Ali,
Abbas Ali Mahdi,
Rajeshwar Nath Srivastava
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of critical illness and injury science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2231-5004
pISSN - 2229-5151
DOI - 10.4103/ijciis.ijciis_73_16
Subject(s) - medicine , biomarker , confidence interval , neurofilament , correlation , observational study , mann–whitney u test , spinal cord injury , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , spinal cord , immunohistochemistry , geometry , mathematics , psychiatry , biochemistry , chemistry , statistics
The aim of this study is to analyze the serial estimation of phosphorylated neurofilament heavy (pNF-H) in blood plasma that would act as a potential biomarker for early prediction of the neurological severity of acute spinal cord injuries (SCI) in adults.