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Blood-Brain Barrier: A Dual Life of MFSD2A?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 2014 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Neuron, volume 82, page 1,183 (issn: 0896-6273,

Authors: Berislav V. Zlokovic; Zhen Zhao;

doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.05.034 , 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.05.012

pmid: 24853933

pmc: PMC4114515

Blood-Brain Barrier: A Dual Life of MFSD2A?

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Abstract

Two recent papers in Nature, Ben-Zvi et al. (2014) and Nguyen et al. (2014), report a surprising dual role for the blood-brain barrier transporter MFSD2A in both establishing BBB integrity and in uptake of the fatty acid DHA.

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Keywords

Male, Docosahexaenoic Acids, Blood-Brain Barrier, Neuroscience(all), Animals, Brain, Membrane Transport Proteins, Female

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