Recent animal experiments indicate a critical role for opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in the pathogenesis of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE). This study aimed to investigate the frequency, extent, and functional correlates of BBB disruption in epileptic patients following mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). Thirty-seven TBI patients were included in this study, 19 of whom suffered from P...

Most studies concerning effects of neural stimuli on the cerebral circulation have focused on changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF). The purpose of this study was to examine effects of sympathetic nerves on permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to albumin, using a quantitative method, and to relate changes in blood flow to changes in permeability of the BBB. Permeability of the BBB was e...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a structural and functional interface between the circulatory system and the brain. Organophosphorous compounds such as chlorpyrifos (CPF) may cross the BBB and disrupt BBB integrity and function. To determine events that may contribute to CPF toxicity, we used an in vitro BBB model in which bovine microvascular endothelial cells (BMEC) and neonatal rat astrocyt...

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to register the prevalence of late potentials (LP) in patients with chronic Chagas' heart disease (CCD) and the relationship with sustained ventricular tachycardia (SVT). 192 patients (96 males), mean age 42.9 years, with CCD were studied through a Signal Averaged ECG using time domain analysis. According to presence or absence of bundle branch block (BBB) an...

Pro-inflammatory cytokines contribute to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction represents an important component of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in the fetus. Hypoxic-ischemic injury could accentuate systemic cytokine transfer across the fetal BBB. There has been considerable conjecture suggesting that systemic cytokines could cross the BBB during the perinatal p...

Escapes from the injured fascicle (EIF) were investigated in 281 cases of bundle branch block (BBB), and during 35 experiments in which rate-dependent BBB was provoked in the intact canine heart. During vagal stimulation, EIF occurred in 27 of the 35 canine experiments, in seven of 24 patients with phase 4 (bradyeardia-dependent) BBB, and in nine of 31 patients with fixed BBB. Changes in the de...

The blood brain barrier (BBB) is a highly dynamic interface between the central nervous system (CNS) and periphery. The BBB is comprised of a number of components and is part of the larger neuro(glio)vascular unit. Current literature suggests that psychostimulant drugs of abuse alter the function of the BBB which likely contributes to the neurotoxicities associated with these drugs. In both pre...

AIMS To investigate the long-term fate of men with bundle-branch block (BBB) from a general population sample. METHODS AND RESULTS Data were derived from 7392 men without a history of myocardial infarction or stroke, born between 1915 and 1925 and investigated between 1970 and 1973. All participants were followed from the date of their baseline examination until 1998. We identified 70 men wit...

‎for any archimedean$f$-ring $a$ with unit in whichbreak$awedge‎‎(1-a)leq 0$ for all $ain a$‎, ‎the following are shown to be‎‎equivalent‎:‎‎1‎. ‎$a$ is isomorphic to the $l$-ring ${mathfrak z}l$ of all‎‎integer-valued continuous functions on some frame $l$‎. 2‎. ‎$a$ is a homomorphic image of the $l$-ring $c_{bbb z}(x)$‎‎of all integer-valued continuous functions‎, ‎in the usual sense‎,‎on som...

Drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) has several challenges, especially toward targeting neurological diseases, due to tight and selective function of BBB. Several structural functional components this contribute restricting drug entry, such as interendothelial junctions (TJs), efflux transporters, drug-metabolizing enzymes, crosstalk between cells neurovascular unit. Among differ...