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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2008
Jitendra Ramanlal Dave, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Changping Yao, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Anthony Joseph Williams, Middletown, MD (US);
Xi-chun May, Laurel, MD (US);
Frank Casper Tortella, Columbia, MD (US);
Ka-wang Kevin Wang, Gainsville, FL (US);
Ronald Lawrence Hayes, Gainsville, FL (US);
Jitendra Ramanlal Dave, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Changping Yao, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Anthony Joseph Williams, Middletown, MD (US);
Xi-Chun May, Laurel, MD (US);
Frank Casper Tortella, Columbia, MD (US);
Ka-Wang Kevin Wang, Gainsville, FL (US);
Ronald Lawrence Hayes, Gainsville, FL (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A diagnostic tool and method of diagnosing brain injury and brain injury type (traumatic vs. ischemic) by detecting the level of expression of endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II (EMAP-II) and comparing to a control. An increase of EMAP-II indicates the presence of traumatic brain injury and a decrease of EMAP-II indicates the presence of ischemic brain injury. Detection of EMAP-II can be done in brain tissue, biofluids such as cerebrospinal fluid or blood (including plasma and serum).