Blood-Spinal Cord and Brain Barriers in Health and Disease
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780126390117
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Neurosciences; Neuroscience; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Pharmacology; Medical / Neuroscience; Blood-vessels; Blood-brain barrier; Blood-brain barrier disorders; Spinal cord
First sentence: Morphologically, the most striking feature of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the elaborate network of complex tight junctions (TJs) structurally characterized as specialized membrane microdomains.