Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) levels peak around 24 hours after traumatic brain injury (TBI) 2. Higher GFAP levels ...

GFAP is a protein specific to the brain released into the bloodstream when brain cells are damaged or destroyed. It is already used in assessing traumatic brain injuries. In a parallel study ...

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Patients were diagnosed as having hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke on the basis of results from CT or MRI brain scans. The researchers found that serum GFAP was detectable in 81% of patients with ...

A molecule called glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) rose significantly in the blood of patients who underwent ...

Their findings, published in Brain Communications, suggest that GFAP could serve as a biomarker for stroke and brain injuries ...

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Love-Preet Kalra, MD (RKH Klinikum Ludwigsburg, Germany), who presented the study as an oral abstract at the recent International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles, CA, noted that GFAP already has a ...

The test measures the levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), a protein specific to the brain which is released into the bloodstream when brain cells are damaged or destroyed.

and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), which are all markers of Alzheimer’s disease. They also assessed the brain health of participants using neuroimaging data and testing cognitive function.

People with brain bleeds had nearly 7 times higher blood levels of a specific brain protein, called glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), than those who had strokes caused by clots in a study ...