[The blood-brain barrier. I. Morphologic data]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1983;139(11):611-24.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is situated between the blood and brain extracellular space (ECS), at the endothelial cells of the cerebral capillaries joined by tight junctions. Its characteristics allow a great selectivity in the blood-brain exchange of solutes: nearly total exclusion of some of them, enhancement of exchange for others. The choroid plexuses, situated at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid interface, play a similar role between blood and CSF. Neither interface can be studied separately.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Arteries / ultrastructure
  • Blood-Brain Barrier*
  • Brain / blood supply*
  • Brain / ultrastructure
  • Capillaries / ultrastructure
  • Endothelium / ultrastructure
  • Extracellular Space
  • Humans
  • Intercellular Junctions / ultrastructure