NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH www.nrronline.orgRESEARCH ARTICLE
Inflammation-related gene expression profiles of salivary extracellular vesicles in patients with head trauma
Yan Cheng1, Mandy Pereira1, *, Neha P. Raukar2, John L. Reagan1, Mathew Quesenberry1, Laura Goldberg1, Theodor Borgovan1, W Curt LaFrance Jr3, Mark Dooner1, Maria Deregibus5, Giovanni Camussi5, Bharat Ramratnam4, Peter Quesenberry1
1 Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
3 Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
4 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA 5 Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Torino TO, Italy
Funding: This project was supported by the National Heart, Lungs, and Blood Institute Grant #T32HL116249 (to PQ). Additional support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH through grant (COBRE) #P20GM103468 Flow Cytometry Core (to PQ), National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH grant #5UH3TROOO880-05 (to PQ) and institutional support through the Division of Hematology/oncology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
Abstract
At present, there is no reliable biomarker for the diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Studies have shown that extracellular vesicles released by damaged cells into biological fluids can be used as potential biomarkers for diagnosis of TBI and evaluation of TBI severity. We hypothesize that the genetic profile of salivary extracellular vesicles in patients with head trauma differs from that in uninjured subjects. Findings from this hypothesis would help investigate the severity of TBI. This study included 19 subjects, consisting of seven healthy controls who denied history of head trauma, six patients diagnosed with concussion injury from an outpatient concussion clinic, and six patients with TBI who received treatment in the emergency department within 24 hours after injury. Real-time PCR analysis of salivary extracellular vesicles in partic-ipants was performed using TaqMan Human Inflammation array. Gene expression analysis revealed nine upregulated genes in emergency department patients (LOX5, ANXA3, CASP1, IL2RG, ITGAM, ITGB2, LTA4H, MAPK14, and TNFRSF1A) and 13 upregulated genes in concussion clinic patients compared with healthy participants (ADRB1, ADRB2, BDKRB1, HRH1, HRH2, LTB4R2, LTB4R, PTAFR, CYSLTR1, CES1, KLK1, MC2R, and PTGER3). Each patient group had a unique profile. Comparison between groups showed that 15 inflammation-related genes had significant expression change. Our results indicate that in-flammation biomarkers can be used for diagnosis of TBI and evaluation of disease severity. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board on December 18, 2015 (approval No. 0078-12) and on June 9, 2016 (approval No. 4093-16).
Key Words: chronic traumatic encephalopathy; emergency department; extracellular vesicles; inflammation; outpatient concussion clinic; real-time PCR analysis; saliva; traumatic brain injuryChinese Library Classification No. R446; R741; Q4
*Correspondence to: Mandy Pereira, MS, mpereira7@lifespan.org. orcid:
0000-0002-3999-9048 (Mandy Pereira)
doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.266924 Received: March 13, 2024
Peer review started: April 29, 2024 Accepted: August 8, 2024
Published online: October 15, 2024
Introduction
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) broadly describes any change or altered brain function or pathology caused by an exter-nal impact (Cheng et al., 2024; Menon et al., 2010). Brain functions that are evaluated are loss of consciousness, loss of memory, retrograde amnesia, neurologic deficits (weakness, paralysis, sensory loss, aphasia), and altered mental state (confusion, disorientation) (Menon et al., 2010). In 2013, there were approximately 2.5 million emergency department (ED) visits due to head injuries, approximately TBI-related 282,000 hospitalizations and approximately 56,000 TBI-relat-ed deaths (Taylor et al., 2017). Repeated TBI attacks increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as chronic trau-matic encephalopathy (CTE) (McKee et al., 2009; Prins et al., 2013; Mez et al., 2017), Alzheimer’s disease (Prins et al., 2013; Heneka et al., 2015), and Parkinson’s disease (Gyoneva and Ransohoff, 2015). Inflammation is a major feature in
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neurodegenerative diseases and is considered an underlying cause for chronic neurodegeneration following TBI (Faden et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2024). Inflammatory responses in-volve multiple components, such as release of intracellular components from damaged cells, microglia and astrocyte ac-tivation, cytokine production, and immune cell recruitment to injury (Gyoneva and Ransohoff, 2015). Understanding of inflammatory response can provide insights for drug tar-geting or other potential therapeutic benefits by preventing further damage.
All cells release extracellular vesicles (EVs) (size ranges from 100 to 1000 nm) (Aliotta et al., 2012) and can be found in all biological fluids, such as blood, urine, and saliva. EVs modulate cell communication and interact with target cells by surface receptors, proteins, mRNA/miRNA, and lipids (Svetlov et al., 2009; Michael et al., 2010; Aliotta et al., 2012; Yokobori et al., 2013; Papa et al., 2016). EVs alter the pheno-
Cheng Y, Pereira M, Raukar NP, Reagan JL, Quesenberry M, Goldberg L, Borgovan T, LaFrance Jr WC, Dooner M, Deregibus M, Camussi G, Ramratnam B, Quesenberry P (2024) Inflammation-related gene expression profiles of salivary extracellular vesicles in patients with head trauma. Neural Regen Res 15(4):676-681. doi:10.4103/1673-5374.266924type of target cells by attaching to the target cells, becoming internalized by a cell or fusing with the target cell membrane and releasing its contents into the cells (Tkach and Thery, 2016). EV luminal components are safe from degradation making EVs the ideal repository of biomarkers (Choi et al., 2014). EV secretion is increased during disease state and therefore can be tested for unique protein, mRNA, and miR-NA content (Choi et al., 2014).
analyzed for inflammation-related gene expression in three In the present study, salivary EVs were characterized and participant groups: head trauma emergency department patients, patients diagnosed with concussion from an outpa-tient concussion clinic, and healthy participants. We utilized the Taqman human inflammation array, which contains 92 genes involved in a broad range of inflammatory response. Since healthy central nervous system (CNS) tissue has low (undetectable) levels of inflammatory mediators (Lucas et al., 2006), we hypothesized low expression of inflamma-tion-related genes in the healthy participants. The healthy participants will serve as a normal baseline when compared to the acute and chronic head trauma patients.
based biomarkers that will afford clinicians adjuvant metrics, The goal of this study is the development of surrogate EV-which is correlated to standard neurological testing and im-aging. This may be used to confirm the diagnosis of TBI and perhaps grade its severity. In addition, biomarker expression may serve as ancillary data point to grade therapeutic re-sponse as and prognostic value.
Participants and Methods
Participant selection
The study is a continuation of previous work done by Cheng et al. (2024). Nineteen participants were included due to availability of mRNA to perform arrays and availability of arrays in this study: six patients with acute head trauma from emergency department (EDPT), six patients with concus-sion from an outpatient concussion clinic (CCPT) and seven healthy participants. These 19 participants were randomly chosen, and not matched for age or sex. Patients with acute head trauma had trauma-induced impairment of neurological function. Healthy participants denied history of head trauma. The patient demographic data are summarized in were detailed in Cheng et al. (2024). All participants and/or Table 1 and their family members gave informed consent. Protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board on December 18, 2015 (approval No. #0078-12) and on June 9, 2016 (#4093-16).Saliva sample collection
Saliva collection was done as previously described by Navazesh et al. (1993). Briefly, participants rinsed with water and then spit saliva into a 50-mL test tube. At least 5 mL sa-liva sample was collected from each participant. For patients with acute head trauma, saliva sample was collected within 24 hours after injury. EVs were evaluated and characterized (data not shown) using NanoSight NS500 instrument, trans-mission electron microscopy (TEM), and western blot analy-sis (results published in Cheng et al., 2024).
Table 1 Participant demographics GroupIDAge at collectionGenderDuration from onsetHealthy controlsC10C1125FC1233FNAC1523FNAC1722MNANAC18UMNAC922FNACCPTCCPT1322NACCPT249F27 dCCPT351M145 dCCPT452F173 dCCPT631F30 dCCPT750F168 dEDPTEDPT228F207 dEDPT336M< 24 hEDPT425M< 24 hEDPT631F< 24 hEDPT926M< 24 hEDPT11
31F27
FF
< 24 h< 24 h
CCPT: Concussion clinic patients (chronic); EDPT: emergency department patients (acute); F: female; M: male; NA: not available; U: unknown.
Salivary EV isolation
Salivary EV was isolated using differential centrifugation (Michael et al., 2010). All salivary samples were kept at –80°C. Saliva samples were diluted with phosphate buffered saline (PBS) (Gibco, Carlsbad, CA, USA). All salivary sam-ples were centrifuged at 1500 × supernatant was centrifuged at 17,000 × g for 10 minutes at 4°C. The The pellets were discarded, and the supernatant was saved. g for 15 minutes. EVs were isolated via ultracentrifugation at 120,000 × 1 hour. Pellets were washed with PBS and centrifuged at g for 120,000 × a final volume of 500-μL PBS.
g for 1 hour. All EV samples were resuspended in Real-time PCR and gene expression analysis
RNA was extracted from EVs using the Trizol reagent (Invit-rogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) using the protocol recommended by the manufacturer. RNA quantity and purity were deter-mined utilizing the Nanodrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). RNA was reverse transcribed to cDNA using the High Capacity cDNA transcription kit (Applied Biosystems, Carlsbad, CA, USA) in a volume of 20 μL using a 9800 Fast Thermal Cycler (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA). Reverse transcription PCR consisted of one cycle for 10 minutes at 25°C, one cycle for 120 minutes at 37°C, and one cycle for 5 minutes at 85°C. cDNA was then pre-amplified using a TaqMan PreAamp Master mix (Life Technologies). Pre-amplification reaction was performed according to manufacturer’s guidelines in a final volume of 50 μL prior to real-time PCR. Pre-ampli-fication reaction consisting of an initial 10 minute cycle at 95a final cycle at 60°C followed by 14 cycles of 15 seconds at 95°C for 4 minutes. Pre-amplificated cDNA
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Cheng Y, Pereira M, Raukar NP, Reagan JL, Quesenberry M, Goldberg L, Borgovan T, LaFrance Jr WC, Dooner M, Deregibus M, Camussi G, Ramratnam B, Quesenberry P (2024) Inflammation-related gene expression profiles of salivary extracellular vesicles in patients with head trauma. Neural Regen Res 15(4):676-681. doi:10.4103/1673-5374.266924product was mixed with a TaqMan Universal Master Mix (Life Technologies) then loaded onto the TaqMan?Inflammation Array (Life Technologies) ( Human 1Each array had 92 genes involved in inflammation processes , TaqMan human Inflammation Array gene description). Additional Table and four housekeeping (endogenous) controls. Arrays were run on the Viia7 Real-Time PCR System (Life Technologies) using comparative cycle threshold (CT) settings and the QuantStudioTMwas used to analyze the data. CT values were used to cal- Real-Time PCR system (Life Technologies) culate fold change of gene expression using GAPDH as the housekeeping gene. Only genes with CT values less than 35 were considered for calculating the fold change in expres-sion. ExpressioSuite Software (Life Technologies) was used to accurately quantify relative gene expression across genes and samples. Only samples with amplification scores higher than 1.2 were considered.
Statistical analysis
Participant ages were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance with a ence (HSD) test. Participant inflammation-related gene ex-post-hoc Tukey’s honestly significant differ-pression differences were identified by a Wilcoxon sum test (STATA, College Station, TX, USA) on the delta Ct values in EDPT ticipants, and EDPT versus healthy participants, CCPT versus healthy par-was determined to be statistically significant.
versus CCPT. A P-value of less than 0.05 Results
Age comparison among participants
The average age of the CCPT group was significantly higher than that of healthy participants (43.5 years Pvs. 24.5 years, the EDPT group (29.3 years = 0.001), but it was not significantly different from that of
vs. 24.5, P = 0.492) (Table 1).Comparison of gene expression between EDPT and healthy participants
Gene expression profiles were compared between the EDPT group and healthy participants. Among 92 inflammation-re-lated genes on the array, 46 genes were up-regulated between EDPT and healthy participants. Each EDPT with gene show-ing two-fold greater change in expression (greater than two considered biologically relevant) compared to healthy par-ticipants is represented (values between EDPT and healthy participants. Results indi-The Wilcoxon sum test was performed to compare delta Ct Figure 1).
cate that nine genes (ed in EDPT compared with healthy participants (Figure 1) were significantly upregulat-ALOX5 (25.89 ± 7.04), ANXA3 (13.38 ± 13.96), CASP1 P < 0.05): (8.03 ± 3.79), ITGB2 (14.53 ± 6.01), IL2RG (57.5 ± 13.75), ITGAM (22.57 ± 13.67), LTA4H (24.37 ± 30.66), MAPK14 (20.23 ± 9.95), and TNFRSF1A (6.59 ± 1.42).
Comparison of gene expression between CCPT and healthy participants
Inflammation-related gene expression profile in the CCPT group showed that 51 genes were upregulated when com-678
pared with healthy participants. CCPT with genes showing twofold change in expression are shown in Wilcoxon rank sum test performed on the delta Ct values Figure 2. The identified that 13 genes were significantly different (0.05) between CCPT and healthy participants (P < The 13 genes that were significantly upregulated are ADRB1 Figure 2). (130.04 ± 101.86), ADBR2 (25.14 ± 10.25), BDKRB1 (125.85 ± 84.9), HRH1 (253.9 ± 140.72), HRH2 (81.09 ± 67.12), LT-B4R2 (41.80 ± 20.92), LTB4R (50.23±42.85), PTAFR (22.10 ± 13.72), CYSLTR1 (94.64 ± 55.86), CES1 (56.31 ± 40.73), KLK1 (113.11 ± 0.00), MC2R (37.81 ± 0.89), PTGER3 (62.38 ± 0.00).
Comparison of inflammation-related gene expression profile between EDPT and CCPT
Inflammation-related gene expression profile was com-pared between EDPT and CCPT. Results showed that 15 genes were significantly altered in expression in EDPT and CCPT (ITGB2 were significantly higher in EDPT than in CCPT Figure 3; P < 0.05). ALOX5, ANXA3, CASP1, and and ADRB1, ADRB2, BDKRB1, CYSLTR1, HRH1, HRH2, LTB4R2, LTB4R, MC2R, NFKB1, PTAFR were significantly higher in CCPT than in EDPT.
Discussion
TBI begins with an initial injury or impact to the head. Secondary injuries occur when inflammatory cells and cy-tokines are recruited to the area of injury. Inflammatory responses are advantageous when actived in a regulated manner to fight an infection. In TBI, inflammation alters brain homeostasis by changing cellular functions. Brain in-flammation is initiated by microglial activation which leads to the release of cytokines, free radicals, and other macro-molecules (Lucas et al., 2006; Paolicelli et al., 2024). The function of microglia is to rescue neuronal cells from dam-age; however, chronic exposure to inflammation becomes neurotoxic (Paolicelli et al., 2024). Astrocytes help maintain brain homeostasis of the central nervous system. Inflamma-tion activates astrocytes, leading to change in cell phenotype and cell migration to damaged area (Fields and Ghorpade, 2012). TBI induces many cells to react to this damage. EVs released by the activated microglia and astrocytes (as well as other neuronal cells) can be isolated to detect stress level in the brain due to inflammation. EVs are excellent interme-diators that can deliver messages to surrounding cells and tissues and eventually to biological fluids that can be isolated for diagnostic purposes.
ceived treatment within 24 hours after injury, CCPT that In this study, saliva was collected from EDPT who re-have suffered from long term effects from the injury, and healthy individuals with no history of head trauma. Inflam-mation-related genes in isolated EVs were detected using the Taqman human inflammation array. The expression levels of ALOX5, ANXA3, CASP1, IL2RG, ITGAM, ITGB2, LTA4H, MAPK14, and TNFRSF1A were increased in EDPT than in healthy participants. Some of these genes have been reported as altered in TBI. ALOX5 metabolizes arachidonic acid to
Cheng Y, Pereira M, Raukar NP, Reagan JL, Quesenberry M, Goldberg L, Borgovan T, LaFrance Jr WC, Dooner M, Deregibus M, Camussi G, Ramratnam B, Quesenberry P (2024) Inflammation-related gene expression profiles of salivary extracellular vesicles in patients with head trauma. Neural Regen Res 15(4):676-681. doi:10.4103/1673-5374.266924A1311Mean delta Ct value97531 ALOX5 ANXA3 CASP1 IL2RG ITGAM ITDB2 LTA4H MAPK14 TNFRSF-1AHealthy controlEDPTAMean delta Ct value1614121086420–2 ADRB1 ADRB2 BDKRB1 CES1 CYSLTR1 HRH1 HRH2 KLK1 LTB4 R LTB4R2 MC2R PTAER PTGER3Healthy control CCPTB80Fold change in gene expression (relative to healthy controls)706050403020100 ALOX5 ANXA3 CASP1 IL2RG ITGAM ITDB2 LTA4H MAPK14 TNFRSF-1AB400 Fold change in gene expression (relative to healthy controls)1086420CCPT EDPT350300250200150100500 ADRB1 ADRB2 BDKRB1 CES1 CYSLTR1 HRH1 HRH2 KLK1 LTB4 R LTB4R2 MC2R PTAER PTGER3Figure 1 Inflammation-related gene expression information of EDPT.
(A) Mean delta Ct values of inflammation-related genes (P < 0.05), comparing EDPT (n = 6) with healthy participants (n = 7). (B) Genes with two-fold or higher increase in gene expression. Error bars repre-sent standard deviation. CT: Cycle threshold; EDPT: emergency de-partment patients.
Figure 2 Inflammation-related gene expression information of CCPT
(A) Delta Ct value of inflammation-related genes (P < 0.05), comparing CCPT (n = 6) with healthy participants (n = 7). (B) All genes that had a two-fold or higher increase in expression. Error bars represent standard deviation. CCPT: Concussion clinic patients; CT: cycle threshold.
Mean delta Ct value–2 ADRB1 ADRB2 ALOX5 ANXA3 BDKRB1 CASP1 CYSLTR1 HRH1 HRH2 ITGB2 LTB4R2 LTB4R MC2R NFKB1 PTAFR Figure 3 Mean delta Ct value in CCPT versus EDPT.
The Wilcoxon test sum test was used to compare delta Ct value between EDPT and CCPT. Fifteen inflammation-related genes were significantly (P < 0.05) upregulated. CCPT: Concussion clinic patients; CT: cycle threshold; EDPT: emergency department patients.
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Cheng Y, Pereira M, Raukar NP, Reagan JL, Quesenberry M, Goldberg L, Borgovan T, LaFrance Jr WC, Dooner M, Deregibus M, Camussi G, Ramratnam B, Quesenberry P (2024) Inflammation-related gene expression profiles of salivary extracellular vesicles in patients with head trauma. Neural Regen Res 15(4):676-681. doi:10.4103/1673-5374.266924leukotrienes. ALOX5 expression increases in the brain after TBI, specifically in glial cells and neutrophils (Zhang et al., 2006; Hijioka et al., 2017). ANXA3 (annexin A3) has been shown to be overexpressed in rodent studies. ANXA3 is upregulated in primary mouse cortical neurons after neuro-nal injury (Chong et al., 2010) and in rat cerebral ischemia (Junker et al., 2007). CASP1 (caspase 1) is involved in apop-tosis. LTA4H (leukotriene A4H) converts LTA4 to LTB4 (Hijioka et al., 2017). LTB4 is a lipid mediator which plays a role in neutrophil infiltration and inflammation in cen-tral nervous system disorders (Hijioka et al., 2017). Studies have shown that LTA4H expression was increased in head trauma patients than in controls (Orr et al., 2015; Hijioka et al., 2017). MAPK pathway was reported to be involved in astrocyte activation due to TBI (Li et al., 2017). Thirteen genes were increased in CCPT than in healthy participants: ADRB1, ADRB2, BDKRB1, HRH1, HRH2, LTB4R2, LTB4R, PTAFR, CYSLTR1, CES1, KLK1, MC2R, and PTGER3. BD-KRB1 (bradykinin) increases blood-brain barrier permeabil-ity and is involved in brain edema relating to ischemic brain injury (Dobrivojevic et al., 2015). Leukotrienes LTB4R2 and LTB4R as discussed previously are believed to be part of inflammatory response. PTAFR (platelet activating factor receptor, aka PAF) is involved in cerebral edema and cere-bral ischemia/reperfusion injury through interactions with PAFR (Yin et al., 2017). PTGER3 (prostaglandin E receptor) expression was significantly increased after unilateral TBI (White et al., 2016). All the genes on the array are involved in more than one inflammatory pathway. Results from this study showed both EDPT and CCPT had many genes sta-tistically significantly upregulated compared with healthy participants, and they did not have any of the 92 genes in common. In this study, we found a unique 15-gene profile between two patient groups. This unique transition of gene transcription could give future insights into the progression of inflammation within the central nervous system.
non-invasive process compared with cerebral spinal fluid or Salivary EVs isolation for diagnosis is a simple and blood collection. Membrane-bound EVs are protected from degradation that serum biomarkers face (Cheng et al., 2024). It is difficult to precisely grade the severity of TBI because it is based on subtle examination and neuroimaging findings (Papa et al., 2015). Salivary EV phenotypes and genetic cargo may allow for early diagnosis. An additional clinical rele-vance of salivary EVs is to monitor inflammatory responses to therapeutic interventions (Cheng et al., 2024).
time, during which multiple genes may change in expression. In this study, CCPT are followed up over a large period of One benefit of EV-based biomarkers is that EVs are free to cross the blood-brain barrier at any time, whereas conven-tional biomarkers can usually only cross a narrow window following TBI and are also limited by variable kinetics and elimination times. Following the initial insult, TBI begins and progresses as an evolving pathology – at each step EVs packed with unique cargo are shed and likely represent this dynamic process (Lucas et al., 2006; Yang et al., 2024). Fol-lowing the initial event, the secondary phase of TBI usually
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involves a wide spread, systemic immune and neuroinflam-matory response mediated by numerous cytokines – a phe-nomenon that we have focus on and captured in our current work.
origin that have varying expression between the three exper-Our work identifies multiple genes within EVs of neural imental groups. There was considerable difference between multiple gene candidates when comparing the EDPT with healthy controls. This gene palette may represent the acute to sub-acute pathophysiological changes that are triggered following TBI, as many of these genes (and development of inflammation, the development of neural 3) are involved in established pathways involved in the Additional Tables 2 plaques, and amyloid precursor proteins, neural apoptosis, and axon regeneration. Genetic variations that were com-mon between the two TBI groups (EDPT and CCPT) but not seen in the EDPT group identify candidate biomarkers that may be related to long-term recovery of patients who have suffered TBI. As prospective studies detected the expression of these biomarkers over time in patients that recover from their injury versus those who have post-concussion syn-drome, clinicians can identify those patients who need earli-er more aggressive intervention in the early period.
tial of such a study. The current therapeutic landscape for Targeting specific gene candidates is also a future poten-patients with TBI of post-concussion issues is supportive symptom management, including vestibula suppressants for vertigo, or various psychostimulants to address memory and attentions deficits. No therapy aimed at preventing the long-term sequelae of TBI such as the development of post-con-cussion syndrome, and ultimately abating the possibility of dementia. However, the current therapeutic utility of the EV-based genetic biomarkers in this study comes in the form of grading and stratifying TBI severity. Rather than simply relying on variable and often imperfect examination and neuroimaging findings, purported biomarkers may allow clinicians to diagnose patients earlier, and, depending on the flux of genetic expression, TBI stratification may also be ac-complished. Both early detection and accurate stratification can clearly identify patients who need closer monitoring, earlier intervention, and stricter follow-up.
and that only one sample was taken per participant. Two pa-A limitation of this study is the small patient sampling size tient groups: ED head injury (EDPT) and sub-acute/chronic symptomatic concussion (CCPT) groups provided infer-ential data on the longitudinal course of TBI (Cheng et al., 2024). Future studies of patients suffering from TBI will in-clude sample collection over time. This will provide data on intra-subject patterns of post-TBI gene expression (Cheng et al., 2024). Future studies will also include not only more pa-tients but a focus on closer age matched controls. Biomarker expression and TBI pathophysiology may vary slightly be-tween older and younger individuals, such as those seen in our groups.
Author contributions:analysis, and interpretation, drafting and revision of the manuscript, ac-
Study conception and design, data acquisition, Cheng Y, Pereira M, Raukar NP, Reagan JL, Quesenberry M, Goldberg L, Borgovan T, LaFrance Jr WC, Dooner M, Deregibus M, Camussi G, Ramratnam B, Quesenberry P (2024) Inflammation-related gene expression profiles of salivary extracellular vesicles in patients with head trauma. Neural Regen Res 15(4):676-681. doi:10.4103/1673-5374.266924countability for accuracy and integrity of the data: YC. Data acquisition, analysis and interpretation, revision and approval of the manuscript: MPMD, TB, LG, MD, GC. Subject enrollment, data acquisition, revision and , approval of the manuscript: NR, JLR. Data interpretation, revision and approval of the manuscript: WCL, MQ, BR. Study conception and design, data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation, revision of the manuscript, accountability for accuracy and integrity of the data: PQ. All authors ap-proved the final manuscript for publication.
Conflicts of interest: Financial support: All authors have no conflicts of interest to report.Lungs, and Blood Institute Grant #T32HL116249 (to PQ). Additional This project was supported by the National Heart, support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH through grant (COBRE) #P20GM103468 Flow Cytometry Core (to PQ), National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH grant #5UH3TROOO880-05 (to PQ) and institutional support through the Division of Hematology/oncology, Rhode Island Hospital Providence RI.
Institutional review board statement: stitutional Review Board on December 18, 2015 (approval No. 0078-12) Protocol was approved by the In-and on June 9, 2016 (approval No. 4093-16).
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