Neuronal and Glial Biomarkers in Urine of Athletes with Different Risks of Head Trauma to Monitor Sports-Related Concussions
Konstantin Kohlhase, Valentin Vollmann, Ferdinand O. Bohmann, Christian Grefkes, Antonia Heuser, Klodiana Meci, Jens Göpfert, Christian Foerch · 2025
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Konstantin Kohlhase and co-authors test whether urine can carry brain injury markers in athletes, avoiding blood draws. Their 2025 study samples boxers, football and soccer players, and endurance athletes, who face high, medium, and low head impact risk. Urine was collected before matches and two to three days after.
Boxers showed the highest levels of two markers, tau and UCH-L1, after adjusting for urine dilution. Ten concussions were recorded, nine of them in boxers. Marker levels did not spike in the first seventy-two hours after a concussion, though later samples pooled together ran higher. Two other markers showed no group differences. The authors urge longer sampling windows in follow-up work.
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| CREATOR | Konstantin Kohlhase, Valentin Vollmann, Ferdinand O. Bohmann, Christian Grefkes, Antonia Heuser, Klodiana Meci, Jens Göpfert, Christian Foerch |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |