ReviewMicromachines2021
Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood-Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 124 citations in OpenAlex.
- Meta-analysis of the make-up and properties of in vitro models of the healthy and diseased blood-brain barrier.Nature biomedical engineering · 2025Pooled it
- Benzothiazepane-Based Curcumin Analogs Show Selective Effects on Respiration, Permeability, and Growth of Gut-Liver (Co-Culture) Cell Models.Chemical biology & drug design · 2026Article
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- Bioimpedance-Based Measurements of In Vitro Biological Cell Barrier Integrity: A Review and Framework for the Acquisition and Analysis Strategies.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Modular Integration of Impedance Sensing for Real-Time Assessment of Barrier Integrity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Standardizing TEER Measurements in Blood-Brain Barrier-on-Chip Systems: A Systematic Review of Electrode Designs and Configurations.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Inhibition of junctional protein disruption by 2,4,6-trihydroxy-3-geranyl acetophenone in lipopolysaccharide-induced endothelial hyperpermeability via GEF-H1/RhoA/ROCK pathway.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- A human blood-brain barrier model reveals pericytes as critical regulators of viral neuroinvasion.iScience · 2026Article
- The delivery challenge of adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapies for neurological diseases.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- A customizable continuous and near real-time TEER platform to study anti-cancer drug toxicity in barrier tissues.Journal of pharmaceutical analysis · 2025Article
- Mechanistic Interplay of Gut Microbiota and Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Modulation of the blood-brain barrier permeability by patient-derived glioblastoma stem cell secretome.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Beyond the Walls of Troy: A Scoping Review on Pharmacological Strategies to Enhance Drug Delivery Across the Blood-Brain Barrier and Blood-Tumor Barrier.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Tryptophan-Rich Diet Improves High-Fat Diet-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction and Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in C57BL/6 Mice through FFAR3 Activation.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2025Article
- Microfluidic Systems to Mimic the Blood-Brain Barrier: from Market to Engineering Challenges and Perspectives.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2025Review
- Pericyte-Assisted Vascular Lumen Organization in a Novel Dynamic Human Blood-Brain Barrier-on-Chip Model.Advanced healthcare materials · 2025Article
- Trans-epithelial/endothelial electrical resistance (TEER): Current state of integrated TEER measurements in organ-on-a-chip devices.Current opinion in biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- Membrane Permeability Monitoring to Antipsychotic Olanzapine Using Platinum Black-Modified Electrodes.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of Tick-BorneInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) represents the tightest endothelial barrier within the cardiovascular system characterized by very low ionic permeability. Our aim was to describe the setups, electrodes, and instruments to measure electrical resistance across brain microvessels and culture models of the BBB, as well as critically assess the influence of often neglected physical and technical parameters such as temperature, viscosity, current density generated by different electrode types, surface size, circumference, and porosity of the culture insert membrane. We demonstrate that these physical and technical parameters greatly influence the measurement of transendothelial electrical resistance/resistivity (TEER) across BBB culture models resulting in severalfold differences in TEER values of the same biological model, especially in the low-TEER range. We show that elevated culture medium viscosity significantly increases, while higher membrane porosity decreases TEER values. TEER data measured by chopstick electrodes can be threefold higher than values measured by chamber electrodes due to different electrode size and geometry, resulting in current distribution inhomogeneity. An additional shunt resistance at the circumference of culture inserts results in lower TEER values. A detailed description of setups and technical parameters is crucial for the correct interpretation and comparison of TEER values of BBB models.
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