Neutral amino acid transport by the blood-brain barrier. Membrane vesicle studies.
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Neutral amino acid transport by the blood-brain barrier. Membrane vesicle studies.
Endothelial cell membranes, the site of the blood-brain barrier, were obtained from the capillaries of cow brain. The luminal and abluminal membranes were separated by centrifugation on a discontinuous Ficoll gradient. Electron microscopy revealed that the membrane preparations consisted almost entirely of sealed vesicles. The release of latent enzyme activity showed that both membrane preparat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)35701-6