Cerebral microcirculation shear stress levels determine Neisseria meningitidis attachment sites along the blood-brain barrier

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 203, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1939-1950

  Mairey, Emilie ^a,b   Genovesio, Auguste ^c,d   Donnadieu, Emmanuel ^e,f   Bernard, Christine ^a,b   Jaubert, Francis ^a   Pinard, Elisabeth ^b,e   Seylaz, Jacques ^b,e   Olivo Marin, Jean Christophe ^c,d   Nassif, Xavier ^a,b   Duménil, Guillaume ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INFANT; LAMINAR FLOW; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTICEMIA; SHEAR STRESS;

ANIMALS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CAPILLARIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MICROCIRCULATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RATS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33746894115     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20060482     Document Type: Article

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