Blood-brain barrier breakdown in Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative disorders

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 133-150

  Sweeney, Melanie D ^a   Sagare, Abhay P ^a   Zlokovic, Berislav V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GADOLINIUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1;

ADVERSE EVENT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANGIOGENESIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CELL INFILTRATION; CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HIV ASSOCIATED DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PERICYTE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; VASCULAR DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 85042640362     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2017.188     Document Type: Review

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