Scientists from the University of Liverpool and their global collaborators have highlighted the most effective treatments for ...

The blood–brain barrier is the biggest challenge to the development of drugs that target the CNS. Most capillary beds leak plasma contents between and across endothelial cells by way of window-like ...

The 3 rd Annual Blood-Brain Barrier Summit is dedicated to helping drug developers enhance drug delivery across the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) to enable effective treatments for neurodegenerative ...

Researchers have identified a novel mechanism by which immune cells wiggle their way across the blood-brain barrier in diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). A type of T-cell involved in autoimmune ...

bDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Malnati Brain Tumor Institute of the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA cDepartment ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they may be exposed to blast waves that damage blood vessels in the ...

How cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are formed, and how they cause tissue damage is not fully understood, but it has been suggested they are associated with inflammation, and they could also be related to ...

A University of Queensland researcher has found molecular doorways that could be used to help deliver drugs into the brain to treat neurological disorders. Dr. Rosemary Cater from UQ's Institute ...

ndcn.ox.ac.uk Blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption has long been recognised as an important early feature of multiple sclerosis (MS) pathology. Traditionally, this has been seen as a by-product of the ...