Biology and physiology of the blood-brain barrier : transport, cellular interactions, and brain pathologies /

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Imprint:New York : Plenum Press, c1996.
Description:xvi, 387 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Advances in behavioral biology. v. 46
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2558502
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Other authors / contributors:Couraud, Pierre-Olivier.
Scherman, Daniel.
Cerebral Vascular Biology Symposium (1995 : Paris, France)
ISBN:0306453622
Notes:"Proceedings of the Cerebral Vascular Biology Symposium, held July 10-12, 1995, in Paris, France"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory
  • Overviews: Development of Blood-Brain Barrier Endothelial Cells
  • Prospects of Neuroprotective Gene Therapy for Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Physiological Transports through the Blood-Brain Barrier: Blood-Brain Taurine Transport and Brain Volume Regulation
  • Volume Regulation of the in vitro Blood-Brain Barrier by Osmoreactive Amino Acids during Stress
  • Blood-Brain Barrier and Drug Delivery to the Brain: The Microarchitecture of Cerebral Vessels
  • Development of Blood-Brain Barrier Tight Junctions
  • Multidrug Resistance Pglycoprotein at the Blood-Brain Barrier: Functional Expression of Multidrug Resistance P-glycoprotein in Cellular Models of Physiological Barriers
  • A Method to Assess Functional Activity of Pglycoprotein in vitro Based on the Energy Requirements of the Transporter
  • Brain Pathologies and Blood-Brain Barrier: Identification of the Penumbra in an Ischemic Rat Model by MRI after Injection of a Superparamagnetic Contrast Agent
  • Effects of Hypoxia on an in vitro Blood-Brain Barrier
  • 44 additional articles
  • Index