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Blood brain barrier in ageing and Alzheimer's disease
1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington, London, UK.
Neurobiology of Aging
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A blood-brain barrier deficit may play a role in age-related deterioration and neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system. Strategies for testing this hypothesis by investigating the structure, barrier and transport functions of brain capillary endothelium are described and discussed.