1. Blood brain barrier methodology and biology / William M. Pardridge -- 2. The carotid artery single injection technique / Eain M. Cornford -- 3. Development of the Brain Efflux Index (BEI) method and its application to the blood-brain barrier efflux transport study / Tetsuya Terasaki -- 4. In situ brain perfusion / David J. Begley -- 5. Intravenous injection / pharmacokinetics / Ulrich Bickel -- 6. Isolated brain capillaries: an in vitro model of blood brain barrier research / William M. Pardridge -- 7. Isolation and behavior of plasma membrane vesicles made from cerebral capillary endothelial cells / Darryl R. Peterson and Richard A. Hawkins -- 8. Patch clamp technique with isolated brain microvessel membranes / Heinz Gogelein, Rudiger Popp and Joachim Hoyer -- 9. Tissue culture of brain endothelial cells -- induction of blood-brain barrier properties by brain factors / Carsten T. Beuckmann and Hans-Joachim Galla -- 10. Brain microvessel endothelial cell culture systems / Kenneth L. Audus, Jayna M. Rose and Wen Wang [and others] -- 11. Intracerebral microdialysis / Elizabeth C.M. de Lange, Albertus G. de Boer and Douwe D. Breimer -- 12. Blood-brain barrier permeability measured with histochemistry / Sukriti Nag -- 13. Measuring local cerebral capillary permeability-surface area products by quantitative autoradiography / Joseph Fenstermacher and Ling Wei -- 14. Measurement of blood-brain barrier permeability in humans using indicator diffusion / Gitte M. Knudsen and Olaf B. Paulson -- 15. Measurement of blood-brain barrier permeability in humans with positron emission tomography / Sung-Cheng Huang, Carl Hoh and Jorge R. Barrio [and others] -- 16. Magnetic resonance imaging of blood-brain barrier permeability / Clive P. Hawkins -- 17. Molecular biology of brain capillaries / Ruben J. Boado -- 18. Biology of the blood-brain glucose transporter / Lester R. Drewes.
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19. Glucose transporters in mammalian brain development / Hannelore Bauer -- 20. Blood-brain barrier amino acid transport / Quentin R. Smith and James Stoll -- 21. P-glycoprotein, a guardian of the brain / P. Borst and A.H. Schinkel -- 22. Blood-brain barrier ion transport / Richard F. Keep, Steven R. Ennis and A. Lorris Betz -- 23. Ion channels in endothelial cells / Christian Frelin and Paul Vigne -- 24. Interactions of lipoproteins with the blood-brain barrier / Laurence Fenart, Benedicte Dehouck and Marie-Pierre Dehouck [and others] -- 25. Fatty acid and lipid intermediate transport / Mario Alberghina -- 26. Blood-brain barrier transport of drugs / Akira Tsuji and Ikumi Tamai -- 27. The blood-CSF barrier and the choroid plexus / Malcolm Segal -- 28. Arachnoid membrane, subarachnoid CSF and pia-glia / Conrad E. Johanson -- 29. Circumventricular organs of the brain / Lise Prescott and Milton W. Brightman -- 30. Transport in the developing brain / N.R. Saunders and K.M. Dziegielewska -- 31. Regulation of brain endothelial cell tight junction permeability / Lee L. Rubin, Louise Morgan and James M. Staddon -- 32. Chemotherapy and chemosensitization / R. Beliveau, M. Demeule and E. Beaulieu [and others] -- 33. Lipid composition of brain microvessels / Jean-Marie Bourre -- 34. Brain microvessel antigens / Burkhard Schlosshauer -- 35. Molecular dissection of tight junctions: occludin and ZO-l / Shoichiro Tsukita, Mikio Furuse and Masahiko Itoh -- 36. Phosphatidylinositol pathways / R.E. Catalan -- 37. Nitric oxide and endothelin at the blood-brain barrier / Sylvie M. Cazaubon and Pierre Oliver Couraud -- 38. Role of intracellular calcium in regulation of brain endothelial permeability / N. Joan Abbott -- 39. Cytokines and the blood-brain barrier / Roumen Balabanov and Paula Dore-Duffy -- 40. Blood-brain barrier and monoamines, revisited / Maria Spatz and Richard M. McCarron.
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41. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy / Harry V. Vinters -- 42. Brain microvasculature in multiple sclerosis / Celia F. Brosnan and Luz Claudio -- 43. Hemostasis and the blood brain barrier / Mark Fisher -- 44. Microvascular pathology in cerebrovascular ischemia / Henryk M. Wisniewski and Albert S. Lossinsky -- 45. HIV infection and the blood-brain barrier / Carol K. Petito -- 46. Hypertension / Barbro B. Johansson -- 47. The blood-brain barrier in brain tumours / P.A. Stewart and D. Mikulis -- 48. The pathophysiology of blood-brain barrier dysfunction due to traumatic brain injury / John T. Povlishock -- 49. Cerebral malaria and the brain microvasculature / Gareth Turner -- 50. Molecular basis of tissue tropism of bacterial meningitis / Jaakko Parkkinen.