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Determining Immune System Suppression versus CNS Protection for Pharmacological Interventions in Autoimmune Demyelination
Published on: September 12, 2016
CNS therapeutics: Immune cells break the barriers
Karine Thai1,2, Alexandre Prat1,2,3
1Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montreal, QC H2X 0A9, Canada.
Abstract:
Peripheral immune cells can be seen as attractive vectors and drug carriers for central nervous system therapeutics because these cells have unique properties that allow them to migrate across the blood-brain barrier, enabling drug delivery to brain regions that are inaccessible to free drugs.
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