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Study Rewrites The Rules of The Blood-Brain Barrier, Including Proteins That May Be Involved in Alzheimer's
It maintains a strict 'guest list' of who's allowed in and who is banned from entering our most delicate organ.
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It maintains a strict 'guest list' of who's allowed in and who is banned from entering our most delicate organ. But a new study, published in the journal Cell today, suggests the blood-brain barrier may be doing far more for our brains than we realized.
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