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The Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Disease, Volume Two: Pathophysiology and Pathology book cover

1st Edition

The Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Disease, Volume Two Pathophysiology and Pathology

Edited By Katerina Dorovini-Zis Copyright 2016
394 Pages
by CRC Press

396 Pages 43 Color & 14 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

394 Pages
by CRC Press
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Located at the interface between blood and the brain, the blood-brain barrier is a dynamic permeability barrier formed by a continuous layer of specialized endothelial cells endowed with important permeability, transport, and regulatory functions that both protect the internal milieu of the brain and allow essential nutrients to be transported into the brain. Abnormalities of the blood-brain... Read more

Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in Multiple Sclerosis. Portals of Viral Entry into the Central Nervous System. Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in HIV Infection. The Brain Microvasculature in Cerebral Malaria. The Blood-Brain Barrier in Bacterial Infections of the Central Nervous System. The Blood-Brain Barrier in Fungal Infections of the Central Nervous System. Blood-Brain Barrier Changes in Traumatic Brain Injury. Alterations of the Blood-Brain Barrier in Post-Traumatic Epilepsy. Functional and Molecular Mechanisms of Hypertensive Brain Damage. Blood-Brain Barrier Protection in Stroke: Taming tPA. Radiation-induced Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption. Alterations of the Blood-Brain Barrier in Thiamine Deficiency. The Blood-Brain Barrier in Brain Tumors. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. The Blood-Brain Barrier in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Alterations of Blood-Brain Barrier Function by Drugs of Abuse.

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