Blood-Brain Barrier Changes in Global and Focal Cerebral Ischemia

Blood-Spinal Cord and Brain Barriers in Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 385-394

  Marsala, Martin ^a   Vanicky, Ivo ^b   Tokumine, Joho ^a   Kakinohana, Osamu ^a   Marsala, Jozef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center of Excellence for Brain Research   (Slovakia)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012639011-7/50023-1     Document Type: Chapter

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