Richard R. Shivers

TL;DR: Results of this study clearly demonstrate the local control of tight junction biogenesis in brain capillary endothelial cells depends on: (1) an astrocyte-produced factor(s), and (2) a 'competent' (cell-produced) extracellular matrix.

TL;DR: This review will present evidence that the previous studies by the authors and other researchers established a framework for subsequent transmission, scanning and high-voltage electron microscopic (HVEM) investigations concerning ultrastructural, ultracytochemical and immunoultra-structural alterations of the cerebral ECs and the mechanisms of the BBB transport that occurs after CNS injury.

TL;DR: Primary cultures of brain capillary endothelial cells retained both endothelial and blood-brain barrier features and were joined together by tight junctions.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that while exposure to glycyrrhetinic acid derivatives may not affect protein synthesis or location, it does seem to alter connexon particle packing in gap junction plaques.

TL;DR: In this paper, a transparent mixture of two types of particles in dispersion, one composed of a high-T g polymer [poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA] ; the other a copolymer of butyl methacyl and butyl acrylate [P(BMA-co-BA] with T g ≤ 10 °C, were obtained under air-drying conditions.