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SUBMITTER: Zanier ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6113646 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zanier Elisa R ER Bertani Ilaria I Sammali Eliana E Pischiutta Francesca F Chiaravalloti Maria Antonietta MA Vegliante Gloria G Masone Antonio A Corbelli Alessandro A Smith Douglas H DH Menon David K DK Stocchetti Nino N Fiordaliso Fabio F De Simoni Maria-Grazia MG Stewart William W Chiesa Roberto R
Brain : a journal of neurology 20180901 9
Traumatic brain injury is a risk factor for subsequent neurodegenerative disease, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a tauopathy mostly associated with repetitive concussion and blast, but not well recognized as a consequence of severe traumatic brain injury. Here we show that a single severe brain trauma is associated with the emergence of widespread hyperphosphorylated tau pathology in a proportion of humans surviving late after injury. In parallel experimental studies, in a model of ...[more]