title: Shock tubes and blast injury modeling.
abstract: Explosive blast injury has become the most prevalent injury in recent military conflicts and terrorist attacks. The magnitude of this kind of polytrauma is complex due to the basic physics of blast and the surrounding environments. Therefore, development of stable, reproducible and controllable animal model using an ideal blast simulation device is the key of blast injury research. The present review addresses the modeling of blast injury and applications of shock tubes.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biology Center, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Research Institute of Surgery and Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University,Chongqing 400042, China.
authors.forename: Ya-Lei
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Ning
authors.forename: Yuan-Guo
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001753:Blast Injuries / Q000209:etiology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D019220:High-Energy Shock Waves; D012106:Research