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[Structuro-functional organization of the blood-brain barrier]

V P Fedorov, I B Ushakov, A N Kordenko

    Izvestiia Akademii Nauk SSSR. Seriia Biologicheskaia
    |January 1, 1989
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    blood-brain barrierastrocyte-capillary complexesneurovascular unitendothelial cellspericytes

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