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ReviewMetabolic brain disease2021

Methods used for the measurement of blood-brain barrier integrity.

Huixin Sun, Huiling Hu, Chuanjie Liu, Nannan Sun, Chaohui Duan

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Review in Metabolic brain disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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Huixin Sun *Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Huiling Hu *Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Chuanjie LiuWeihai City Key Laboratory of Autoimmunity, Weihai Central Hospital, Weihai, 264400, Shandong Province, China.
Nannan SunState Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100005, China. sun_nann@163.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9381-8113
Chaohui DuanGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. 1725012289@qq.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) comprises the interface between blood, brain and cerebrospinal fluid. Its primary function, which is mainly carried out by tight junctions, is to stabilize the tightly controlled microenvironment of the brain. To study the development and maintenance of the BBB, as well as various roles their intrinsic mechanisms that play in neurological disorders, suitable measurements are required to demonstrate integrity and functional changes at the interfaces between the blood and brain tissue. Markers and plasma proteins with different molecular weight (MW) are used to measure the permeability of BBB. In addition, the expression changes of tight-junction proteins form the basic structure of BBB, and imaging modalities are available to study the disruption of BBB. In the present review, above mentioned methods are depicted in details, together with the pros and cons as well as the differences between these methods, which maybe benefit research studies focused on the detection of BBB breakdown.

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AnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierBrainEndothelial CellsPermeabilityStaining and LabelingTight Junction ProteinsTight JunctionsTight Junction ProteinsBlood-brain barrier integrityEvans blueMeasurementSodium fluoresceinTight-junction protein

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