We examined the changes in circulating choline status in humans in response to major surgery by measuring serum free and phospholipid-bound choline concentrations before, during and 1–72 h after total abdominal hysterectomy, off-pump coronary artery graft surgery or brain tumor surgery...
Keywords: bound choline, brain surgery, cortisol, free choline, hysterectomy, surgical stress
12/2004 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterThe aims of this study were to determine circulating choline status and its relationship to circulating levels of S-100? protein and neuron-specific enolase, biochemical markers of cerebral injury and cognitive decline, after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery...
Keywords: brain injury, cognitive decline, coronary artery surgery, free choline, neuron-specific enolase (NSE), S-100?
04/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter