Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28956691›Full record

ReviewTissue barriers2017

The blood brain barrier: Insights from development and ageing.

Conor Delaney, Matthew Campbell

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Review in Tissue barriers, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Understanding the Blood-Brain Barrier: From Physiology to Pathology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  18. Microbiota-gut-brain axis and toll-like receptors in Alzheimer's disease.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2019
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  20. Building barriers.Tissue barriers · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Conor Delaneya Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin , Dublin , Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-8735-2225
Matthew Campbella Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin , Dublin , Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood brain barrier is a necessity for cerebral homeostasis and response to environmental insult, thus loss in functionality with age creates opportunities for disease to arise in the aged brain. Understanding how the barrier is developed and maintained throughout the earlier years of adult life can identify key processes that may have beneficial applications in the restoration of the aged brain. With an unprecedented increasing global aged population, the prevention and treatment of age-associated disorders has become a rising healthcare priority demanding novel approaches for the development of therapeutic strategies. The aging cardiovascular system has long been recognised to be a major factor in age-associated diseases such as stroke, atherosclerosis and cardiac arrest. Changes in the highly specialised cerebral vasculature may similarly drive neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disease.

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsAtherosclerosisBlood-Brain BarrierBrainHumansStrokeTight Junctionsageingbiology of endothelial barriersblood brain barrierdementiapsychiatric illnesstight junctions

Identifiers

PMID28956691
PMCPMC5788423

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Registered trials

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