High-intensity focused ultrasound selectively disrupts the blood-brain barrier in vivo

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 389-400

  Mesiwala, Ali H ^a   Farrell, Lindi ^a   Wenzel, H Jurgen ^a   Silbergeld, Daniel L ^a   Crum, Lawrence A ^b   Winn, H Richard ^a   Mourad, H Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; HIFU; Permeability; Tight junctions; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; NEUROLOGY; TISSUE;

HYPEROSMOTIC SOLUTIONS;

ULTRASONICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYPEROSMOLARITY; HYPERTHERMIA; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIGHT JUNCTION; TISSUE INJURY; ULTRASOUND;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0036228751     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(01)00521-X     Document Type: Article

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