Outwitting the Blood-Brain Barrier for Therapeutic Purposes: Osmotic Opening and Other Means
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurosurgery
- Vol. 42 (5), 1083-1099
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006123-199805000-00082
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:. This article reviews historical aspects of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and recent advances in mechanisms to deliver therapeutic agents acKeywords
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