1st Edition

The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier

Edited By Wei Zheng, Adam Chodobski Copyright 2005
656 Pages
by CRC Press

656 Pages
by CRC Press

Despite the existence of two barrier systems in the brain, research over the last century has mostly focused on the blood-brain barrier rather than on the blood-CSF barrier. Today, there is a greater understanding of the function of the blood-CSF barrier and of the choroid plexus, a tissue that is the primary site of this barrier. With the growing number of studies that focus on the role of the... Read more
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Biography

Wei Zheng, Adam Chodobski