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Greenwood J, Edenne-Manneville S, Adamson P, Couraud PO (2002) Lymphocyte migration into tlie cenrial neiwous system Implication of ICAM-1 signaling at tlie blood-brain barrier. Vascular Pharmacol 38 315—22. 

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One should realize that the intracellular compartment as depicted in Figure 2 represents multiple cell types, whereas in vitro studies normally utilize a single cell type pertinent to characterizing specific attributes of drug transport in that cell system. The method of Shah et al. [51] would be of great benefit to investigating blood-brain barrier transport, consistent with a vascular-extravascular subcompartment brain model. 

The cerebral endothelial cells of the blood-brain barrier originate from the middle germinal sheet of the embryo, the mesoderm [17]. Concomitant with migration and proliferation of capillary endothelial cells during formation of the cerebral vascular network occurs the imprinting of the cells. Thereby, induction by the cellular surrounding plays an important role [18-21], The relevance of the cellular environment for the development of the barrier function of cerebral microvessels was first demonstrated by Stewart and Wiley [22], who transplanted embryonic brain tissue of a quail into embryonic gut tissue of chicken and vice versa. The cerebral transplant was vascularized by intestinal vessels, in which properties of the blood-brain barrier had been induced. In transplanted brain vessels, however, no characteristics of a barrier could be demonstrated, due to the lack of a neuronal environment. These results indicated that the cerebral microvessels are of extraneuronal origin, with properties that are induced by the cellular environment. In addition, brain tissue has the capability to induce blood-brain barrier characteristics also in noncerebral vascular tissue [23],... 

Figure 2.4. In vivo measurement of blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, (a) Internal carotid artery perfusion technique (i) in the rat. Other branches of the carotid artery are ligated or electrically coagulated (o, occipital artery p, pterygopalatine artery). The external carotid artery (e) is cannulated and the common carotid artery (c) ligated. Perfusion time may range from 15 s to 10 min, depending on the test substance. It is necessary to subtract the intravascular volume, Vo, from (apparent volume of distribution), to obtain true uptake values and this may be achieved by inclusion of a vascular marker in the perfusate, for example labelled albumin. Time-dependent analysis of results in estimates of the unidirectional brain influx constant Ki (pi min which is equivalent within certain constraints to the PS product. BBB permeability surface area product PS can be calculated from the increase in the apparent volume of distribution Vd over time. Capillary depletion, i.e. separation of the vascular elements from the homogenate by density centrifugation, can discriminate capillary uptake from transcytosis. (b) i.v. bolus kinetics. The PS product is calculated from the brain concentration at the sampling time, T, and the area under the plasma concentration-time curve, AUC.

Ab, Antibody BBB, Blood Brain Barrier CNS, Central Nervous System HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus HSA, Human Serum Albumin IGF, Insulin Growth Factor I/R, Ischaemia/Reperfusion MW, Molecular Weight OxLDL, Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein -R, -receptor sCD4, soluble CD4 VEGF, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor. 

The use of in vitro cell culture models for mechanistic studies and as permeability screens for the blood-brain barrier in the pharmaceutical Industry-Background and current status in the drug discovery process. Vascular Pharmacology, 38, 355-364. 

PAM crosses the blood-brain barrier with difficulty. 2-PAM in rat brain, 10 min after injection, is only about 5-12% of that in plasma higher percentages are in the more heavily vascularized areas, such as cerebral and cerebellar cortex and inferior colliculi.34 This low brain-to-blood ratio persists, but over the next 6 h the brain and blood come closer to equilibrium as the blood... 

FDG is readily taken tip by this transport system, although the extent of uptake can be influenced by the concentration of plasma glucose, which competes with FDG for uptake. The efficiency of transport across the blood brain barrier is such that blood flow is generally not limiting for tracer delivery but the potential for a drug to have a direct vascular effect that influences tracer delivery should be considered. 

Brain Studies. Rubidium-82 has also been used to study blood brain barrier changes in patients with brain tumors or Alzheimer s type senile dementia (28-30). The method of study is similar to the heart studies without gating. Figure 11 shows the uptake of Rb-82 in the three levels of a brain tumor. This non-invasive procedure provides information on the size and vascularity of the tumor. In the slice OM + 10 there is a vascular rim and a necrotic center in the tumor. The metabolism of glucose was determined in the same tumor patient using F-fluorodeoxyglucose produced on a cyclotron and the results correlated well with Rb-82 distribution. 

Biochemically lead binds to sulfhydryl (-SH) groups in proteins, that is, it can inhibit enzymes and affect the structures and functions of structural proteins. Some of the effects of this binding include increased permeability of the blood-brain-barrier, breakdown of vascular tissue, destruction of the ground substance in cells leading to conditions of anemia and kidney damage. 

Bolton, S.J., D.C. Anthony, and V.H. Perry. 1998. Loss of tight junction proteins occluding and zonula-occludens-1 from cerebral vascular endothelium during neutrophil-induced blood-brain barrier breakdown in vivo. Neuroscience 86 1245. 

Perhaps the main peroxide-induced alterations, within cells and tissues, are those that affect calcium and sodium homeostasis. Na, K-ATPase, which is considered as the core of the sodium pump , is strongly affected by peroxides, and especially by lipid hydroperoxides [137-139]. This implies that oxidative stress will usually be associated with cellular edema . Alternatively, activation of the Na, K-ATPase of vascular endothelia, such as the blood-brain barrier, will result in extracellular edema on the antiluminal side of the endothelium, due to massive influx of sodium ions [119]. 

Tight junctional complexes zonula occludens ) in the retinal pigment epithelium prevent the ready movement of antibiotics and other drugs from the blood to the retina and vitreous. The retina is a developmental derivative of the neural tube wall and can be viewed as a direct extension of the brain it is not surprising that the blood-retinal barrier somewhat resembles the blood-brain barrier in form and function. Experimental evidence has shown that histamine does not alter the vascular permeability of the retina but does affect that of all other ocular tissues. The retina closely resembles the brain with respect to this trait. 

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