TY - BOOK ID - 14303043 TI - Biology and Regulation of Blood‑Tissue Barriers PY - 2013 SN - 1461447100 1461447119 PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Blood-air barrier. KW - Blood-brain barrier. KW - Capillaries -- Permeability. KW - Capillary permeability. KW - Blood-brain barrier KW - Capillaries KW - Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena KW - Retina KW - Seminiferous Tubules KW - Pulmonary Alveoli KW - Cardiovascular System KW - Biological Transport KW - Brain KW - Anatomy KW - Testis KW - Central Nervous System KW - Lung KW - Eye KW - Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena KW - Metabolism KW - Respiratory System KW - Sense Organs KW - Metabolic Phenomena KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Nervous System KW - Genitalia, Male KW - Genitalia KW - Urogenital System KW - Blood-Air Barrier KW - Blood-Brain Barrier KW - Blood-Testis Barrier KW - Capillary Permeability KW - Blood-Retinal Barrier KW - Human Anatomy & Physiology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Neuroscience KW - Permeability KW - Permeability. KW - Blood-cerebral barrier KW - Blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier KW - Brain-blood barrier KW - Hemato-encephalic barrier KW - Hematoencephalic barrier KW - Medicine. KW - Molecular biology. KW - Biomedicine. KW - Molecular Medicine. KW - Biomedicine general. KW - Molecular biochemistry KW - Molecular biophysics KW - Biochemistry KW - Biophysics KW - Biomolecules KW - Systems biology KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Cerebrospinal fluid KW - Choroid plexus KW - Blood-vessels KW - Biomedicine, general. KW - Health Workforce UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14303043 AB - This book was written by many outstanding investigators who have spent decades to study different aspects of blood‑tissue barrier function. They have summarized some of the latest and fascinating development in their fields of research including the blood‑brain barrier, the blood‑retinal barrier, the gut barrier, the blood‑biliary barrier, the blood‑follicle barrier, the blood‑epididymis barrier, the blood‑testis barrier, the tight junction barrier in general as well as barriers in the female reproductive tract. Included are also chapters that focus on topics that are physiologically applicable to all blood‑tissue barriers. Many of these chapters also include information on specific human diseases, such as pathological changes of the gut barrier that cause bowel disorders resulting from inflammation of the epithelial lining in the intestine, and infertility in men as a result of disruption of the blood‑epididymal and/or blood‑testis barriers; and on new therapeutic approaches (e.g., drug delivery across the blood‑brain and the blood‑retinal barriers). ER -