A Year in Review: Brain Barriers and Brain Fluids Research in 2022

Overview

Journal Fluids Barriers CNS

Publisher Biomed Central

Date 2023 Apr 21

PMID 37085841

Authors

Richard F Keep

Hazel C Jones

Mark G Hamilton

Lester R Drewes

Affiliations

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Abstract

This aim of this editorial is to highlight progress made in brain barrier and brain fluid research in 2022. It covers studies on the blood-brain, blood-retina and blood-CSF barriers (choroid plexus and meninges), signaling within the neurovascular unit and elements of the brain fluid systems. It further discusses how brain barriers and brain fluid systems are impacted in CNS diseases, their role in disease progression and progress being made in treating such diseases.

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