The blood-brain barrier is a protective layer of blood vessel cells that protects the brain by keeping helpful things in and harmful things out. Understanding the blood-brain barrier is essential to making advances in brain health, from understanding stroke, MS, and neurodegenerative diseases, to creating anesthetic and antidepressant medications.
When Dr. Baptiste Lacoste was invited to update an essential reference on the blood-brain barrier, he assembled an expert team to tackle the challenge. Authors Baptiste Lacoste, Alexandre Prat, Moises Freitas-Andrade, and Chenghua Gu compiled the past decade’s advancements on the blood-brain barrier into the newly revised blood-brain chapter of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Press book ‘Glia.’