Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered new mechanisms underlying cellular adhesion and repair, findings that ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

Joint injury induces rapid and sustained diversification of resident and infiltrating synovial macrophage phenotypes, underpinning osteoarthritis-associated synovitis.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have published a study on the effect of wildfire smoke on the blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain from harmful substances.

Interrupting signals exchanged between tumors and the nervous system could become a critical pillar of cancer care ...

Following the devastating fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, concerns are on the rise about the long-term health impacts of smoke inhalation.

A 3D model accurately mimicking the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in a laboratory environment has been successfully developed by research teams led by Professor Jinah Jang from the Departments of ...

When "HBMEC (human brain microvascular endothelial cells)" and "HBVP (human brain vascular pericytes ... replicated the arrangement and organization process of "tight junction proteins," a component ...

parkeri interactions while trying to observe Rickettsia reaching a cell junction. The current model for Rickettsia infection involves R. parkeri spreading cell to cell by traveling to the ...