Brain extracellular space: Geometry, matrix and physiological importance

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4-8

  Kamali Zare, Padideh ^a   Nicholson, Charles ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL INTERACTION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DIFFUSION; DRUG PENETRATION; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMETRY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROSCIENCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84890069256     PISSN: 2008126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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