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Structure and function of the blood–brain barrier

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The structure and function of the BBB is summarised, the physical barrier formed by the endothelial tight junctions, and the transport barrier resulting from membrane transporters and vesicular mechanisms are described.
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This article is published in Neurobiology of Disease.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 3783 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Blood–brain barrier.

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LDL-lipids from patients with hypercholesterolaemia and Alzheimer's disease are inflammatory to microvascular endothelial cells: mitigation by statin intervention.

TL;DR: LD-L from hypercholesterolaemic, AD and AD-plus patients are inflammatory to HMVECs, and in vivo intervention with statins reduces the damaging effects of LDL-L on HMV ECs.
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Seizure progression and inflammatory mediators promote pericytosis and pericyte-microglia clustering at the cerebrovasculature.

TL;DR: Results indicate the occurrence of pericytosis during seizures and introduce a pericyte-microglial mediated mechanism of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in epilepsy.
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Dual-Sensitive Nanomicelles Enhancing Systemic Delivery of Therapeutically Active Antibodies Specifically into the Brain

TL;DR: Toxic benefits were obtained by successfully inhibiting Aβ1-42 aggregation in Alzheimer's disease mice systemically treated with 3D6-Fab-loaded glucosylated PM and this nanocarrier system represents a promising method for effectively delivering functional antibody agents into the brain and treating neurological diseases.
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A Critical Review of the Use of Surfactant-Coated Nanoparticles in Nanomedicine and Food Nanotechnology

TL;DR: A review of the use of surfactant-coated nanoparticles in nanomedicine and food nanotechnology can be found in this article, where the authors systematically describe these nanoparticles through various sections in order.
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Blood-Brain Barrier- and Blood-Brain Tumor Barrier-Penetrating Peptide-Derived Targeted Therapeutics for Glioma and Malignant Tumor Brain Metastases.

TL;DR: A novel BBB/BBTB-penetrating peptide was identified from phage-displayed peptide library and can serve as a universal vector for shuttling compounds across the BBB; therefore, it may have wide applications for treating brain tumors as well as other CNS diseases.
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Astrocyte–endothelial interactions at the blood–brain barrier

TL;DR: Specific interactions between the brain endothelium, astrocytes and neurons that may regulate blood–brain barrier function are explored to lead to the development of new protective and restorative therapies.
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The Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Chronic Neurodegenerative Disorders

TL;DR: These findings support developments of new therapeutic approaches for chronic neurodegenerative disorders directed at the blood-brain barrier and other nonneuronal cells of the neurovascular unit.
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Junctions between intimately apposed cell membranes in the vertebrate brain

TL;DR: Endothelial and epithelial tight junctions occlude the interspaces between blood and parenchyma or cerebral ventricles, thereby constituting a structural basis for the blood-brain and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers.
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The human ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily

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