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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-20
pubmed:abstractText
The delicate microenvironment of the central nervous system (CNS) is protected by the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCB). These barriers function in distinct CNS compartments and their anatomical basis lay on the junctional proteins present in endothelial cells for the BBB and in the choroidal epithelium for the BCB. During neuroinflammatory conditions like multiple sclerosis (MS) and its murine model experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), activation or damage of the various cellular components of these barriers facilitate leukocyte infiltration leading to oligodendrocyte death, axonal damage, demyelination and lesion development. This manuscript will review in detail the features of these barriers under physiological and pathological conditions, particularly when focal immune activation promotes the loss of the BBB and BCB phenotype, the upregulation of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) and the recruitment of immune cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0006-3002
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
1812
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
252-64
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Disruption of central nervous system barriers in multiple sclerosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory, Center of Excellence in Neuromics, CHUM-Notre-Dame Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review