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SUBMITTER: Elwood E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5380128 | biostudies-other | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Elwood Elliot E Lim Zhi Z Naveed Hammad H Galea Ian I
Brain, behavior, and immunity 20161101
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays an important role in the clinical expression of neuropsychiatric symptoms during systemic illness in health and neurological disease. Evidence from in vitro and preclinical in vivo studies indicate that systemic inflammation impairs blood-brain barrier function. In order to investigate this hypothesis, we evaluated the association between systemic inflammatory markers (leucocytes, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein) and BBB function (cerebro ...[more]