Extracellular vesicles through the blood–brain barrier: A review

HM Ramos-Zaldívar, I Polakovicova… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2022 - Springer
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are particles naturally released from cells that are delimited by a
lipid bilayer and are unable to replicate. How the EVs cross the Blood–Brain barrier (BBB) in …

The blood–brain barrier and blood–tumour barrier in brain tumours and metastases

CD Arvanitis, GB Ferraro, RK Jain - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
For a blood-borne cancer therapeutic agent to be effective, it must cross the blood vessel
wall to reach cancer cells in adequate quantities, and it must overcome the resistance …

Zebrafish as a tractable model of human cardiovascular disease

G Bowley, E Kugler, R Wilkinson… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mammalian models including non‐human primates, pigs and rodents have been used
extensively to study the mechanisms of cardiovascular disease. However, there is an …

Bridging barriers: a comparative look at the blood–brain barrier across organisms

NM O'Brown, SJ Pfau, C Gu - Genes & development, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) restricts free access of molecules between the blood and the
brain and is essential for regulating the neural microenvironment. Here, we describe how …

Radial glia in the zebrafish brain: Functional, structural, and physiological comparison with the mammalian glia

N Jurisch‐Yaksi, E Yaksi, C Kizil - Glia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The neuroscience community has witnessed a tremendous expansion of glia research. Glial
cells are now on center stage with leading roles in the development, maturation, and …

The role of PLVAP in endothelial cells

L Denzer, W Muranyi, H Schroten, C Schwerk - Cell and tissue research, 2023 - Springer
Endothelial cells play a major part in the regulation of vascular permeability and
angiogenesis. According to their duty to fit the needs of the underlying tissue, endothelial …

An improved zebrafish transcriptome annotation for sensitive and comprehensive detection of cell type-specific genes

ND Lawson, R Li, M Shin, A Grosse, O Yukselen… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The zebrafish is ideal for studying embryogenesis and is increasingly applied to model
human disease. In these contexts, RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) provides mechanistic …

3D brain angiogenesis model to reconstitute functional human blood–brain barrier in vitro

S Lee, M Chung, SR Lee… - Biotechnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The human central nervous system (CNS) vasculature expresses a distinctive barrier
phenotype, the blood–brain barrier (BBB). As the BBB contributes to low efficiency in CNS …

Wnt signaling mediates acquisition of blood–brain barrier properties in naïve endothelium derived from human pluripotent stem cells

BD Gastfriend, H Nishihara, SG Canfield, KL Foreman… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Endothelial cells (ECs) in the central nervous system (CNS) acquire their specialized blood–
brain barrier (BBB) properties in response to extrinsic signals, with Wnt/β-catenin signaling …

The secreted neuronal signal Spock1 promotes blood-brain barrier development

NM O'Brown, NB Patel, U Hartmann, AM Klein, C Gu… - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a unique set of properties of the brain vasculature which
severely restrict its permeability to proteins and small molecules. Classic chick-quail chimera …