Article
Flow rate of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)--a concept common to normal blood-CSF barrier function and to dysfunction in neurological diseases.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 1 Apr 1994
Reiber H
Abstract excerpt
Many neurological diseases are accompanied by increased protein concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), described as a blood-CSF barrier dysfunction. The earlier interpretation as a "leakage" of the blood-CSF barrier for serum proteins could be revised by introduction of a "population variation coefficient" of the CSF/serum quotients for IgG, IgA and IgM (delta Q/Q) which is evaluated as a function of...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Animals
- Blood Proteins
- Blood-Brain Barrier
- Cerebrospinal Fluid
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diffusion
- Female
