Breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and neuropathological changes induced by Phoneutria nigriventer spider venom

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-134

  de Paula Le Sueur, Luciana ^a   Kalapothakis, Evanguedes ^b   da Cruz Höfling, Maria Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Brain vasogenic edema; Extracellular tracer; Permeability; Phoneutria nigriventer venom

Indexed keywords

LANTHANUM; NITRATE; SPIDER VENOM; TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN REGION; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL JUNCTION; CELL TRANSPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDEMA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVENOMATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMEOSTASIS; INOCULATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROENVIRONMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMPTOM; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VENULE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; PATHOLOGY; TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 0037313280     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-002-0623-8     Document Type: Review

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