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·November 8, 2017·4 min read

A Recipe to Make a Human Blood-Brain Barrier

Researchers have defined a process that can help to create more realistic human blood-brain barriers in a dish.

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·September 29, 2015·5 min read

Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Influenced by Disruption of Blood-Brain Barrier

A new study reports amyloid beta induces a strong inflammatory response, destroying the blood-CSF barrier.

Image shows a a cross section of a blood vessel in the brain.

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·April 19, 2016·4 min read

Antiviral Immune Response Linked to Depression in Mice

According to a new study, brain cells lining blood vessels produce a protein that impairs neuronal firing in the hippocampus during an antiviral immune response.

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·November 10, 2017·4 min read

Biomarker May Predict Early Alzheimer’s

Researchers discover the DAG peptide can recognize specific protein elevation in brain blood vessels of both mouse models and humans with Alzheimer's disease.

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·December 7, 2016·5 min read

Blood-Brain Barrier on a Chip Sheds New Light on ‘Silent Killer’

A new blood-brain barrier on a chip system is being used to study neuroinflammation, researchers report.

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·June 24, 2019·3 min read

Certain cells secrete a substance in the brain that protects neurons

Vascular cell loss results in neuron loss, researchers report. However, pericytes secrete a substance that helps protect neurons, even when vascular cell degeneration begins to occur.

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·September 21, 2015·5 min read

Could Daily Limb Compression Reduce Dementia Risk?

Researchers are looking at whether short, daily bouts of limb compression can help to reduce dementia.

This image shows how vascular mural cells.

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·June 11, 2015·2 min read

Delving Into the Sympathetic Nervous System

A new study reports on how a key component of the nervous system develops during the embryonic stage.

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·May 7, 2019·5 min read

Everyday stress may boost blood vessel dysfunction in people with depression

Exposure to everyday stressors may result in impairments in endothelial function for patients with major depressive disorder. The findings reveal a possible reason for the association between stress, depression and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

Image shows human neuronal cells can be cultured from aged adult brain.

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·January 17, 2017·5 min read

First Cell Culture of Live Adult Human neurons Shows Potential of Brain Cell Types

Researchers successfully grew adult human neurons from tissue donated from surgery patients. The researchers were able to identify at least 5 brain cell types and the potential proteins each cell could make.