[HTML][HTML] The blood–brain barrier in health and disease: Important unanswered questions

CP Profaci, RN Munji, RS Pulido… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
The blood vessels vascularizing the central nervous system exhibit a series of distinct
properties that tightly control the movement of ions, molecules, and cells between the blood …

[HTML][HTML] Blood-brain barrier: from physiology to disease and back

MD Sweeney, Z Zhao, A Montagne… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents neurotoxic plasma components, blood cells, and
pathogens from entering the brain. At the same time, the BBB regulates transport of …

The blood-brain barrier is dysregulated in COVID-19 and serves as a CNS entry route for SARS-CoV-2

S Krasemann, U Haferkamp, S Pfefferle, MS Woo… - Stem cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Neurological complications are common in COVID-19. Although SARS-CoV-2 has been
detected in patients' brain tissues, its entry routes and resulting consequences are not well …

Hypoxia-enhanced Blood-Brain Barrier Chip recapitulates human barrier function and shuttling of drugs and antibodies

TE Park, N Mustafaoglu, A Herland… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The high selectivity of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts delivery of many
pharmaceuticals and therapeutic antibodies to the central nervous system. Here, we …

Human iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier chips enable disease modeling and personalized medicine applications

GD Vatine, R Barrile, MJ Workman, S Sances… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) tightly regulates the entry of solutes from blood into the brain
and is disrupted in several neurological diseases. Using Organ-Chip technology, we created …

Pluripotent stem cell-derived epithelium misidentified as brain microvascular endothelium requires ETS factors to acquire vascular fate

TM Lu, S Houghton, T Magdeldin… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Cells derived from pluripotent sources in vitro must resemble those found in vivo as closely
as possible at both transcriptional and functional levels in order to be a useful tool for …

Biology and models of the blood–brain barrier

C Hajal, B Le Roi, RD Kamm… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is one of the most selective endothelial barriers. An
understanding of its cellular, morphological, and biological properties in health and disease …

Transcriptomic comparison of human and mouse brain microvessels

HW Song, KL Foreman, BD Gastfriend, JS Kuo… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The brain vasculature maintains brain homeostasis by tightly regulating ionic, molecular,
and cellular transport between the blood and the brain parenchyma. These blood–brain …

Thyroid hormone transporters

S Groeneweg, FS van Geest, RP Peeters… - Endocrine …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Thyroid hormone transporters at the plasma membrane govern intracellular bioavailability of
thyroid hormone. Monocarboxylate transporter (MCT) 8 and MCT10, organic anion …

Bridging barriers: a comparative look at the blood–brain barrier across organisms

NM O'Brown, SJ Pfau, C Gu - Genes & development, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) restricts free access of molecules between the blood and the
brain and is essential for regulating the neural microenvironment. Here, we describe how …