Protective borders between the brain and the blood weaken with age. This includes the barrier formed by tightly linked epithelial cells in the choroid plexus, which generates cerebrospinal fluid. In ...

Enough pints of beer can have you falling off your bar stool or loudly reciting lyrics to early 2000s jams to total strangers, because alcohol can get past one of the strongest defenses in the body.

The image of the “blood-brain barrier” as a static wall that shields the brain from the rest of the body is crumbling. A group of scientists argue, in a review published in Fluids and Barriers of the ...

The signal, produced by neurons, helps the barrier form and maintain its protective properties. What makes the vital layer of protective cells around the brain and spinal cord -- the blood-brain ...

The brain is among the most “immune-privileged” of organs primarily through the highly selective permeability of the blood-brain-barrier (BBB), its minimal lymphatic drainage, the presence of ...

Denali Therapeutics is poised to revolutionize the industry with its proprietary Transport Vehicle (TV) technology, designed to effectively cross the blood-brain barrier. The company's robust and ...

In 37 people with post-COVID neuropsychiatric conditions -- most commonly, brain fog -- there was no evidence of abnormal cytokines in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or blood-brain barrier dysfunction, ...