Pericytes: Brain-immune interface modulators

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Hurtado Alvarado, Gabriela ^a   Cabañas Morales, Adrian M ^a   Gómez Gónzalez, Beatriz ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Brain endothelial cell; Cytokines; Immune response; Inflammation; Pericytes; REM sleep loss; Tight junction disruption

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; DESMIN; NEURON GLIAL ANTIGEN 2; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RGS PROTEIN; RGS5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN PERICYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; UPREGULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84892599727     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00080     Document Type: Review

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