Ultrastructural alterations of human cortical capillary basement membrane in human brain oedema

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-21

  Castejón, Orlando José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Basement membrane; Brain oedema; Electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; AQUAPORIN 4; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; GLYCOPROTEIN; LAMININ 1; PROTEIN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

AGING; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ASTROCYTE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN NECROSIS; CAPILLARY BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAPILLARY; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRAIN EDEMA; CAPILLARIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS;

EID: 84899572672     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/fn.2014.41740     Document Type: Review

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