Assessing Therapies for Traumatic Brain or Spinal Cord Injuries

5 Jan 2015

A recent study published by Dohi et al. (2014) examined the effects of molecular hydrogen given in drinking water, using a traumatic brain injury (TBI) animal model and conditionally immortalized mouse cerebral pericyte cells (ImBPC). Dohi et al. used a Seahorse Bioscience XF24 Extracellular Flux Analyzer to measure the changes in mitochondrial respiration using the XF Cell Mito Stress Test and the results of the study are summarized here.

Seahorse XFe24 Analyzers

Agilent Technologies

XFe Extracellular Flux Analyzers simultaneously interrogate the two major energy producing pathways of the cell – mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis - in a microplate, in real-time.

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