How can microbial interactions with the blood-brain barrier modulate astroglial and neuronal function?

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1470-1478

  Grab, Dennis J ^a   Chakravorty, Srabasti J ^b   van der Heyde, Henri ^c   Stins, Monique F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c La Jolla Infectious Disease Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALARIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMA; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MACROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; NEURONS;

PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 80052819013     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2011.01661.x     Document Type: Review

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