 Blood-Brain Barrier
"Blood-Brain Barrier" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Specialized non-fenestrated tightly-joined ENDOTHELIAL CELLS with TIGHT JUNCTIONS that form a transport barrier for certain substances between the cerebral capillaries and the BRAIN tissue.
| Descriptor ID |
D001812
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A07.035 A08.186.211.035
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| Concept/Terms |
Blood-Brain Barrier- Blood-Brain Barrier
- Barrier, Blood-Brain
- Barriers, Blood-Brain
- Blood Brain Barrier
- Blood-Brain Barriers
- Hemato-Encephalic Barrier
- Barrier, Hemato-Encephalic
- Barriers, Hemato-Encephalic
- Hemato Encephalic Barrier
- Hemato-Encephalic Barriers
- Brain-Blood Barrier
- Barrier, Brain-Blood
- Barriers, Brain-Blood
- Brain Blood Barrier
- Brain-Blood Barriers
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| 1981 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blood-Brain Barrier" by people in Profiles.
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Hoxha V, Lama C, Chang PL, Saurabh S, Patel N, Olate N, Dauwalder B. Sex-specific signaling in the blood-brain barrier is required for male courtship in Drosophila. PLoS Genet. 2013; 9(1):e1003217.
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Christy AL, Walker ME, Hessner MJ, Brown MA. Mast cell activation and neutrophil recruitment promotes early and robust inflammation in the meninges in EAE. J Autoimmun. 2013 May; 42:50-61.
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Sayed BA, Christy AL, Walker ME, Brown MA. Meningeal mast cells affect early T cell central nervous system infiltration and blood-brain barrier integrity through TNF: a role for neutrophil recruitment? J Immunol. 2010 Jun 15; 184(12):6891-900.
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Hu B, Bernotas R, Unwalla R, Collini M, Quinet E, Feingold I, Goos-Nilsson A, Wilhelmsson A, Nambi P, Evans M, Wrobel J. Quinoline-3-carboxamide containing sulfones as liver X receptor (LXR) agonists with binding selectivity for LXRbeta and low blood-brain penetration. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Jan 15; 20(2):689-93.
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Cysique LA, Vaida F, Letendre S, Gibson S, Cherner M, Woods SP, McCutchan JA, Heaton RK, Ellis RJ. Dynamics of cognitive change in impaired HIV-positive patients initiating antiretroviral therapy. Neurology. 2009 Aug 04; 73(5):342-8.
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Richards ML, Prince RA, Kenaley KA, Johnson JA, LeFrock JL. Antimicrobial penetration into cerebrospinal fluid. Drug Intell Clin Pharm. 1981 May; 15(5):341-68.
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Bering EA. The cerebrospinal fluid and the extracellular fluid of the brain. Introductory remarks. Fed Proc. 1974 Sep; 33(9):2061-6.
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BERING EA. Studies on the role of the choroid plexus in tracer exchanges between blood and cerebrospinal fluid. J Neurosurg. 1955 Jul; 12(4):385-92.
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BERING EA. Water exchange in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid; studies on the intraventricular instillation of deuterium (heavy water). J Neurosurg. 1954 May; 11(3):234-42.
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