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Blood-Brain Barrier

  • 1st Edition, Volume 126 - July 17, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gerald Litwack
  • Language: English

Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of… Read more

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Description

Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Key features

  • Provides the latest information on blood-brain barrier research
  • Offers outstanding and original reviews on a range ofblood-brain barrier research topics
  • Serves as an indispensable reference for researchers and students alike

Readership

Undergraduates, graduates, academics, and researchers in the field of Vitamins and Hormones

Table of contents

1. Metal effects on the blood brain barrier
Touqeer Ahmed, Saba Mehak Zahoor and Sara Ishaq

2. Brain microvascular cell metabolism and it ties to barrier function
Alisa Morss Clyne, Callie Weber and Bilal Moiz

3. Implantable Microdevices and the Blood-Brain Barrier
Herbert H. Engelhard III

4. Sleep loss impairs blood brain barrier function
Beatriz Gomez Gonzalez

5. Roles of astrocytic sonic hedgehog production and its signal for regulation of the blood-brain barrier permeability
Yutaka Koyama

6. Sound-induced opening of the blood brain barrier
Juergen Kurths

7. Crossing the blood brain barrier with graphine nanostructures
Roger Narayan

8. Insulin receptor at the blood-brain barrier: transport and signaling
Sumio Ohtsuki

9. Beta-caryophyllene and blood brain barrier
Mauro Schneider Oliveira and Michele Pereira Mallmann

10. Insulin and the blood-brain barrier
Elizabeth Rhea

11. Anatomy of blood brain barrier
Rajat Sandhir

12. Gene therapy targeting the blood brain barrier
Markus Schwaninger

13. Sensors for Blood Brain Barrier on a Chip
Jeong-Yeol Yoon and Yan Liang

14. Circadian clock regulates the blood-brain barrier
Shirley L. Zhang

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 126
  • Published: July 17, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Gerald Litwack

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States

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