Blood-brain barrier breakdown and neovascularization processes after stroke and traumatic brain injury

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 556-564

  Prakash, Roshini ^a   Carmichael, S Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Neovascularization; Stroke; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD CEREBROSPINAL FLUID BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CAVEOLA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VASCULAR SURGERY; BRAIN INJURY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; STROKE;

EID: 84947492488     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0000000000000248     Document Type: Review

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