SPARC/osteonectin, an endogenous mechanism for targeting albumin to the blood-cerebrospinal fluid interface during brain development

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1062-1073

  Liddelow, S A ^a   Dziegielewska, K M ^a   Mollgard K ^b   Phoenix, T N ^c   Temple, S ^c,d   Vandeberg, J L ^e   Saunders, N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Neural Stem Cell Institute   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Albumin; Blood CSF barrier; Cerebrospinal fluid; Choroid plexus; Monodelphis domestica; Protein transport

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; OSTEONECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CEREBROSPINAL FLUID BARRIER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CHOROID PLEXUS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MONODELPHIS; OSTEONECTIN;

EID: 80053570969     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07821.x     Document Type: Article

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