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Blood-brain barrier: a dual life of MFSD2A?
Zhen Zhao1, Berislav V Zlokovic1
1Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Abstract:
Two recent papers in Nature, Ben-Zvi et al. (2014) and Nguyen et al. (2014), report a surprising dual role for the blood-brain barrier transporter MFSD2A in both establishing BBB integrity and in uptake of the fatty acid DHA.
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