Traumatic brain injury causes an increase in astrocytes three months after injury (IMAGE)

Medical University of South Carolina

Traumatic brain injury causes an increase in astrocytes three months after injury

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Hippocampal slices of an uninjured brain (top) or a brain three months after TBI (bottom). There is an increase in astrocytes (green) following a brain injury.

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Dr. Stephen Tomlinson of the Medical University of South Carolina.

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