A new traumatic brain injury study has come out that shows potential promise for the treatment of victims of this type of accident. The study was performed by Oxygen Biotherapeutics. The study was just recently been published in the medical journal Neurosurgery (October 2008 edition). The researchers did the study on rats who had sustained a traumatic brain injury. The scientists administered oxygen therapy to the brains of the rats and this led to a positive outcome.
Oxygen Biotherapeutics has created what is called a perfluorocarbon (PFC) therapeutic oxygen carrier. They tested this carrier on the brains of rats who had sustained a brain insult. Interestingly the carrier improves cognitive capacity and also has a protective affect on the rats hippocampal neurons.
