What is it about?
Toxins in the brain after an injury can delay healing and worsen long-term effects of the injury. We demonstrate that administering clindamycin into a lateral brain ventricle increases the clearance of toxins from the brain and prevent new toxins from entering the brain as the injury heals.
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Why is it important?
Current approaches promote toxin clearance after a brain injury expose the brain to additional toxins during healing, or attempt to mitigate the effects of the toxins without removing them. Our approach simultaneously promotes toxin removal and protects the brain from further toxin exposure during healing.
Perspectives
The strategy presented in this paper for treating brain injuries potentially combines the best portions of the two major concepts used to treat brain injuries into a single approach.
Benjamin Umlauf
University of Texas at Austin
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This page is a summary of: Intraventricular clindamycin enhances interstitial brain fluid drainage and the blood–brain barrier after a traumatic brain injury, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2536755123.
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