Animal Models of Traumatic Brain Injury

Introduction The use of animal models for studying traumatic brain injury (TBI) has several advantages, including low breeding costs, easy maintenance, and innovative techniques to create genetically modified strains. Rodent models provide powerful tools to screen and characterize putative therapeutic targets in TBI. These models efficiently recapitulate several clinical features of TBI such as closed […]

Background and Significance Section of Grant Application

Writing a grant application requires real effort and time nowadays. With the growing competition each year, demands true mastery. Right after selecting your research topic, you are supposed to devise a well-structured research plan. The quality of your plan will determine whether your research will be successful or not. National Institutes of Health (NIH) will […]

Challenges of Health Investigators

The scientific discourse has been abuzz with the ongoing discussion on young scientists and health investigators and the challenges they face. With the growing unpredictability of the economic climate, the biomedical research budget is shrinking every day. Both early-career investigators and established scientists are facing the worsening funding crisis, the hardest hit, however, are the […]

Collecting Preliminary Data for the Grants

To receive a grant award, you think of novel ways of highlighting your research application amongst all others. It is where preliminary research appears and acts as a power play for your grant proposal. Data for preliminary research is gathered via small-scale research to assess the protocols of your research. It gives your reviewers a […]

Rodent Craniotomy Protocol

Introduction A craniotomy is a surgical procedure used to temporarily open a part of the skull to expose the brain for experimental manipulations. Research developments over the past two decades have made craniotomy safer, simpler, and more successful. In craniotomy, a bone flap is removed from the skull to reach the internal brain. Craniotomies are […]

Conducting Literature Search for Grant Application

Literature Search is the lifeline of any grant proposal. It comprises sorting and sifting the history of past research and collecting useful and beneficial information. Not too long ago, the literature was persevered and available in the form of physical books only. But now, the technology has replaced it with cloud data that is easily […]

Controlled Cortical Impact for Traumatic Brain Injury

Introduction Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is referred to as alteration or dysfunctionality in brain function, or brain pathology resulting from external trauma or force. TBI is a serious health condition because of its complexity and wide-reaching effects, including lesions, necrosis, and axon degeneration. Research on traumatic brain injury has been challenging because no two injuries […]

Developing and Writing Hypothesis for Grant Application

Every day we find brilliant research being presented for grant approval. These researches possess the potential to bring a biomedical breakthrough by answering complex questions. But because tremendous investigation is being undertaken throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world, the research topics overlap resulting in undeniable similarity in the primary research concept. This […]

Fluid Percussion Injury

Need impactors for your experiments? Click here Introduction The fluid percussion injury (FPI) model is a widely used study model for traumatic brain injury. FPI model produces an injury through a craniectomy by applying a momentary fluid pressure pulse on to the exposed dura. This pulse is created by a pendulum striking to the piston […]