Assessment of Permeability in Barrier Type of Endothelium in Brain Using Tracers: Evans Blue, Sodium Fluorescein, and Horseradish Peroxidase

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 763, Issue , 2011, Pages 369-382

  Kaya, Mehmet ^a   Ahishali, Bulent ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Endothelium; Evans blue; Horseradish peroxidase; Permeability; Sodium fluorescein

Indexed keywords

ALBUMINOID; EVANS BLUE; FLUORESCEIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MANNITOL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HISTOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROTOMY; PERMEABILITY; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EVANS BLUE; FLUORESCEIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MANNITOL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROTOMY; PERMEABILITY; RATS; TISSUE EMBEDDING;

ANIMALIA; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA;

EID: 80054732668     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-191-8_25     Document Type: Chapter

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