Cancer and the blood-brain barrier: ‘Trojan horses’ for courses?
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The blood-brain barrier and cancer: transporters, treatment, and Trojan horses.
Despite scientific advances in understanding the causes and treatment of human malignancy, a persistent challenge facing basic and clinical investigators is how to adequately treat primary and metastatic brain tumors. The blood-brain barrier is a physiologic obstruction to the delivery of systemic chemotherapy to the brain parenchyma and central nervous system (CNS). A number of physiologic pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Pharmacology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0007-1188
DOI: 10.1038/bjp.2008.274