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The Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Disease, Volume Two
Pathophysiology and Pathology
- 394 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
The Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Disease, Volume Two
Pathophysiology and Pathology
About this book
Located at the interface between blood and the brain, the blood-brain barrier is a dynamic permeability barrier formed by a continuous layer of specialized endothelial cells endowed with important permeability, transport, and regulatory functions that both protect the internal milieu of the brain and allow essential nutrients to be transported into
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Preface to Volume 2
- List of Contributors
- 1. Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in Multiple Sclerosis
- 2. Portals of Viral Entry into the Central Nervous System
- 3. Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) Dysfunction in HIV Infection
- 4. The Brain Microvasculature in Cerebral Malaria
- 5. The Blood-Brain Barrier in Bacterial Infections of the Central Nervous System
- 6. Blood-Brain Barrier in Fungal Infections of the Central Nervous System
- 7. Blood-Brain Barrier Changes in Traumatic Brain Injury
- 8. Alterations of the Blood-Brain Barrier in Post-Traumatic Epilepsy
- 9. Functional and Molecular Mechanisms of Hypertensive Brain Damage
- 10. Blood Brain Barrier Protection in Stroke: Taming tPA
- 11. Radiation-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption
- 12. The Blood-Brain Barrier in Thiamine Defi ciency (Wernicke’s Encephalopathy)
- 13. The Blood-Brain-Barrier in Brain Tumors
- 14. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Clinicopathologic Features and Pathogenesis
- 15. Vascular Factors and the Blood Brain Barrier in Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- 16. Blood-Brain Barrier Damage in the Context of HIV Infection and Drug Abuse