Nature Communications (May 2022)

Serum metabolome associated with severity of acute traumatic brain injury

  • Ilias Thomas,
  • Alex M. Dickens,
  • Jussi P. Posti,
  • Endre Czeiter,
  • Daniel Duberg,
  • Tim Sinioja,
  • Matilda Kråkström,
  • Isabel R. A. Retel Helmrich,
  • Kevin K. W. Wang,
  • Andrew I. R. Maas,
  • Ewout W. Steyerberg,
  • David K. Menon,
  • Olli Tenovuo,
  • Tuulia Hyötyläinen,
  • András Büki,
  • Matej Orešič,
  • CENTER-TBI Participants and Investigators

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30227-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Traumatic brain injury is associated with changes to the metabolome. Here the authors show that acute traumatic brain injury has distinctive serum metabolic patterns which may suggest protective changes of systemic lipid metabolism aiming to maintain lipid homeostasis in the brain.