What does the general landscape of TBI research area currently look like?
Traumatic Brain Injury research is currently on the rise.
What are the real-world implications of your research?
We are focusing on identifying biomarkers of injury severity and seizure susceptibility, to help in the clinic for early treatment options for patients.
Which physiological parameters are you monitoring during your studies ?
EEG, activity, and video are recorded with easyTEL+RP (formerly rodentPACK), a wireless telemetry system from emka TECHNOLOGIES.
We are also looking at:
- Biomarkers and functional deficits through regular blood collection and motor skills assessments.
- RNAseq, miRNA, and tRNA fragments to correlate with injury.
How has using emka TECHNOLOGIES equipment helped with improving the translatability and reproducibility of your research?
The addition of synchronized video with EEG and seizure detection modules has allowed to do large scale data collection and to identify early parameters in animals that are more likely to develop post-traumatic epilepsy.
The combination of EEG, acceleration, and video is a huge upside to the emka system.
The analysis software’s flexibility with the seizure detection module has been extremely valuable to these findings. This has allowed us to do large scale data collection that has allowed us to identify potential early parameters on who will develop early seizure.
How long have you been an emka TECHNOLOGIES user?
Over 10 years. We particularly appreciate the very responsive, flexible, and accommodating customer service.
