Publications by authors named "Corrina Kelliher"
Article Synopsis
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious health issue that affects many people and is expensive to treat.
- Researchers often use rats in experiments to study TBI and give them pain relief medicine like buprenorphine to help manage pain.
- This study showed that rats given a specific type of buprenorphine (bup-SR-LAB) experienced more weight loss and had to be euthanized sooner compared to those given another type (bup-SR-HCl), helping scientists understand how different pain medicines affect research outcomes.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major leading cause of death and disability. While previous studies regarding focal pathologies following TBI have been done, there is a lack of information concerning the role of analgesics and their influences on injury pathology. Buprenorphine (Bup), an opioid analgesic, is a commonly used analgesic in experimental TBI models.
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