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Evolutionary Conservation of Vertebrate Blood–Brain Barrier Chemoprotective Mechanisms in<i>Drosophila</i>
18 Mar 2009
Abstract excerpt
Pharmacologic remedy of many brain diseases is difficult because of the powerful drug exclusion properties of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Chemical isolation of the vertebrate brain is achieved through the highly integrated, anatomically compact and functionally overlapping chemical isolation processes of the BBB. These include functions that need to be coordinated between tight diffusion junctions and...
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