Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

A new study by researchers from Marshall University and the University of Missouri highlights how exosomes—tiny vesicles ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a ...

These cells lining the inside of your brain's blood vessels are tightly packed together, forming your blood-brain barrier.

Additionally, therapeutics developed in animal models do not translate to human disease processes. We have developed a “fetal blood-brain-barrier model”, and 1) evaluated the effect of compounds that ...

The 39-year-old actress revealed she suffered a rare blood clot in her brain, known as cerebral venous thrombosis, which accounts for only 3% of strokes worldwide. While expecting her daughter Ori ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) formed by the cerebral microvessel endothelium and the blood-CSF barrier (BCSFB) formed by the choroid plexus epithelium impact the cerebral bioavailability of drugs and ...

Emphasizing the spatial molecular pattern behind blood-brain barrier disruption and loss of the vascular tone in the acute phase following ischemic stroke reperfusion suggests the gene expression ...

The Immense Importance of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier According to research undertaken by Iughetti et al. (2011), the central nervous system and the ...

A new study led by Profs. Fan Kelong and Yan Xiyun from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

The results surprised some experts because they suggest certain PFAS are capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a protective mechanism designed to shield the brain from harmful ...