The blood-brain barrier : new research / Pedro A. Montenegro and Stefanee M. Juárez, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montenegro, Pedro A.

Juárez, Stefanee M.

Series:

Neuroscience research progress series.

Neurology--laboratory and clinical research development series.

Neuroscience research progress

Neurology--laboratory and clinical research developments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blood-brain barrier.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a highly regulated system that maintains brain allostasis. BBB achieves its main function by transporting blood to brain glucose, amino acids and other molecules needed for proper neural physiology, while extruding from the brain molecules derived from neural and glial metabolism that may have neurotoxic properties. In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of blood-brain barriers including their local and temporal regulation during normal and altered physiological states; the therapeutic opportunities of efflux-transporters at the blood-brain barrier; novel strategies to restore blood-brain barrier integrity after brain injury; evaluation of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in neurological diseases and blood-brain barrier in hepatic encephalopathy

Contents:

Local and temporal regulation of the blood-brain barrier during normal and altered physiological states / Beatriz Gómez-González, Gabriela Hurtado-Alvarado, Javier Velázquez-Moctezuma

Angiogenesis and its mechanistic implications in the pathology of neurodegenerative disorders / Aditiben Patel ... [et al.]

It takes two to tango : protein-protein interactions in the translocation of pathogens across blood-brain barrier / L. Pulzova ... [et al.]

Efflux-transporters at the blood-brain barrier : therapeutic opportunities / Alan Talevi ... [et al.]

Novel strategies to restore blood brain barrier integrity after brain injury / Winfried Neuhaus ... [et al.]

Evaluation of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in neurological diseases / Alina González-Quevedo ... [et al.]

Blood-brain barrier in health and disease / Inês Palmela, Dora Brites, Maria Alexandra Brito

HIV-1 gp120 induces blood-brain barrier abnormalities : pathophysiology and therapeutic consequences / Jean-Pierre Louboutin, David S. Strayer

Blood brain barrier in hepatic encephalopathy / Cuiming Sun, Pei Liu

Blood-brain barrier (BBB) : morphology and disease / L. Colin-Barenque ... [et al.].

Notes:

"Nova biomedical."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62100-812-6

OCLC:

923665464