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  1. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of neurodegenerative disease. It is an irreversible condition marked by irreversible cognitive loss, commonly attributed to the loss of hippocampal neurons due ...

    Authors: Snehal Raut, Ronak Patel and Abraham J. Al-Ahmad

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2021 18:3

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  2. Blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) is a growing health concern due to the increased use of low-cost improvised explosive devices in modern warfare. Mild blast exposures are common amongst military per...

    Authors: Gozde Uzunalli, Seth Herr, Alexandra M. Dieterly, Riyi Shi and L. Tiffany Lyle

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2021 18:2

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  3. Large differences in glymphatic system transport—similar in magnitude to those of the sleep/wake cycle—have been observed during anesthesia with dexmedetomidine supplemented with low dose isoflurane (DEXM-I) i...

    Authors: Burhan O. Ozturk, Brittany Monte, Sunil Koundal, Feng Dai, Helene Benveniste and Hedok Lee

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2021 18:1

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  4. Hydrocephalus, the pathological expansion of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-filled cerebral ventricles, is a common, deadly disease. In the adult, cardiac and respiratory forces are the main drivers of CSF flow...

    Authors: A. H. Dur, T. Tang, S. Viviano, A. Sekuri, H. R. Willsey, H. D. Tagare, K. T. Kahle and E. Deniz

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:72

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  5. Continuous circulation and drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are essential for the elimination of CSF-borne metabolic products and neuronal function. While multiple CSF drainage pathways have been identifi...

    Authors: Molly Brady, Akib Rahman, Abigail Combs, Chethana Venkatraman, R. Tristan Kasper, Conor McQuaid, Wing-Chi Edmund Kwok, Ronald W. Wood and Rashid Deane

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:71

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  6. The permeability of the blood-spinal cord barrier (BSCB) is mainly determined by junction complexes between adjacent endothelial cells (ECs), including tight junctions (TJs) and adherens junctions (AJs), which...

    Authors: Xinwang Ying, Qingfeng Xie, Shengcun Li, Xiaolan Yu, Kecheng Zhou, Jingjing Yue, Xiaolong Chen, Wenzhan Tu, Guanhu Yang and Songhe Jiang

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:70

    Content type: Research

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  8. The pia arachnoid complex (PAC) is a cerebrospinal fluid-filled tissue conglomerate that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Pia mater adheres directly to the surface of the brain while the arachnoid mater ad...

    Authors: Gabryel Conley Natividad, Sophia K. Theodossiou, Nathan R. Schiele, Gordon K. Murdoch, Alkiviadis Tsamis, Bertrand Tanner, Gabriel Potirniche, Martin Mortazavi, David A. Vorp and Bryn A. Martin

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:68

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  9. The importance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diagnostics for psychiatry is growing. The CSF/blood albumin quotient (QAlb) is considered to be a measure of the blood–CSF barrier function. Recently, systematically h...

    Authors: Sophie Meixensberger, Karl Bechter, Rick Dersch, Bernd Feige, Simon Maier, Miriam A. Schiele, Kimon Runge, Dominik Denzel, Kathrin Nickel, Derek Spieler, Horst Urbach, Harald Prüss, Katharina Domschke, Ludger Tebartz van Elst and Dominique Endres

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:67

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  10. Circumventricular organs (CVOs) are small structures without a blood–brain barrier surrounding the brain ventricles that serve homeostasic functions and facilitate communication between the blood, cerebrospina...

    Authors: Inge C. M. Verheggen, Joost J. A. de Jong, Martin P. J. van Boxtel, Alida A. Postma, Frans R. J. Verhey, Jacobus F. A. Jansen and Walter H. Backes

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:66

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  11. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is caused by an opportunistic infection with JC polyoma virus (JCPyV) and mainly affects immunocompromised patients. It leads to pronounced demyelination of the...

    Authors: Nora Möhn, Yi Luo, Thomas Skripuletz, Philipp Schwenkenbecher, Anne Ladwig, Clemens Warnke, Sven G. Meuth, Heinz Wiendl, Catharina C. Gross, Christoph Schröder, Aiden Haghikia and Martin Stangel

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:65

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  12. In 2012, we provided the first published evidence that human pluripotent stem cells could be differentiated to cells exhibiting markers and phenotypes characteristic of the blood–brain barrier (BBB). In the en...

    Authors: Ethan S. Lippmann, Samira M. Azarin, Sean P. Palecek and Eric V. Shusta

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:64

    Content type: Commentary

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  13. Measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) plays an important role in long-term monitoring and neuro-intensive treatment of patients with a cerebral shunt. Currently, only two complete telemetric implants with...

    Authors: S. Rot, M. Dweek, P. Gutowski, L. Goelz, U. Meier and J. Lemcke

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:63

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  15. Understanding the pathophysiology of the blood brain–barrier (BBB) plays a critical role in diagnosis and treatment of disease conditions. Applying a sensitive and specific LC–MS/MS technique for the measureme...

    Authors: Behnam Noorani, Ekram Ahmed Chowdhury, Faleh Alqahtani, Yeseul Ahn, Dhavalkumar Patel, Abraham Al-Ahmad, Reza Mehvar and Ulrich Bickel

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:61

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  16. The microvasculature (MV) of brains with Alzheimer’s disease neuropathologic change (ADNC) and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), in the absence of concurrent pathologies (e.g., infarctions, Lewy bodies), is i...

    Authors: Mamatha Damodarasamy, Robert B. Vernon, Jasmine L. Pathan, C. Dirk Keene, Anthony J. Day, William A. Banks and May J. Reed

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:60

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  17. Children referred to a tertiary hospital for the indication, “rule out idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)” may have an increased risk of raised venous sinus pressure. An increase in sinus pressure coul...

    Authors: Grant Alexander Bateman, Gopinath Musuwadi Subramanian, Swee Leong Yap and Alexander Robert Bateman

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:59

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  18. The choroid plexus is a major contributor to the generation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and the maintenance of its electrolyte and metabolite balance. Here, we sought to characterize the blood flow dynamics o...

    Authors: Li Zhao, Manuel Taso, Weiying Dai, Daniel Z. Press and David C. Alsop

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:58

    Content type: Research

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  19. The pathophysiological basis of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is still unclear. Previous studies have shown a familial aggregation and a potential heritability when it comes to iNPH. Our aim ...

    Authors: Joel Räsänen, Joel Huovinen, Ville E. Korhonen, Antti Junkkari, Sami Kastinen, Simo Komulainen, Minna Oinas, Cecilia Avellan, Janek Frantzen, Jaakko Rinne, Antti Ronkainen, Mikko Kauppinen, Kimmo Lönnrot, Markus Perola, Anne M. Koivisto, Anne M. Remes…

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:57

    Content type: Research

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  20. David S. Miller was Acting Scientific Director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, and Head of the Intracellular Re...

    Authors: Björn Bauer, J. Larry Renfro, Karl J. Karnaky Jr., Rosalinde Masereeuw, Gert Fricker, Ron E. Cannon and Anika M. S. Hartz

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:56

    Content type: Short paper

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  21. Human coronaviruses are highly pathogenic viruses that pose a serious threat to human health. Examples include the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak of 2003 (SARS-CoV-1), the Middle East Respiratory S...

    Authors: M. A. MacLean, L. Kamintsky, E. D. Leck and A. Friedman

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:55

    Content type: Review

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  22. In recent years, differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) into brain-specific microvascular endothelial cells (iBMECs) has frequently been used to model the blood–brain barrier (BBB). H...

    Authors: Pedram Motallebnejad and Samira M. Azarin

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:54

    Content type: Research

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  23. Predictive in vitro models of the human blood–brain barrier (BBB) are essential in early drug discovery and development. Among available immortalized human brain capillary endothelial cell lines (BCECs), the h...

    Authors: Birthe Gericke, Kerstin Römermann, Andreas Noack, Sandra Noack, Jessica Kronenberg, Ingolf Ernst Blasig and Wolfgang Löscher

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:53

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  24. The brain lacks a conventional lymphatic system to remove metabolic waste. It has been proposed that directional fluid movement through the arteriolar paravascular space (PVS) promotes metabolite clearance. We...

    Authors: Ravi Teja Kedarasetti, Kevin L. Turner, Christina Echagarruga, Bruce J. Gluckman, Patrick J. Drew and Francesco Costanzo

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:52

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  25. RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) in its varied forms has become an indispensable tool for analyzing differential gene expression and thus characterization of specific tissues. Aiming to understand the brain barriers g...

    Authors: David M. F. Francisco, Luca Marchetti, Sabela Rodríguez-Lorenzo, Eduardo Frías-Anaya, Ricardo M. Figueiredo, Peter Winter, Ignacio Andres Romero, Helga E. de Vries, Britta Engelhardt and Rémy Bruggmann

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:51

    Content type: Review

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  26. Syringomyelia is a common spinal cord lesion. However, whether CSF blockage is linked to the formation and enlargement of syringomyelia is still controversial. The current model of syringomyelia needs modifica...

    Authors: Longbing Ma, Qingyu Yao, Can Zhang, Mo Li, Lei Cheng and Fengzeng Jian

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:50

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  27. The relationship between proteins in different CNS extracellular compartments is unknown. In this study the levels of selected proteins in three compartments in people with progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS)...

    Authors: Joakim Bergman, Anders Svenningsson, Per Liv, Tommy Bergenheim and Joachim Burman

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:49

    Content type: Research

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  28. Formation, maintenance, and repair of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) are critical for central nervous system homeostasis. The interaction of endothelial cells (ECs) with brain pericytes is known to induce BBB c...

    Authors: Marjolein Heymans, Ricardo Figueiredo, Lucie Dehouck, David Francisco, Yasuteru Sano, Fumitaka Shimizu, Takashi Kanda, Rémy Bruggmann, Britta Engelhardt, Peter Winter, Fabien Gosselet and Maxime Culot

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:48

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  29. Receptor-mediated transcytosis (RMT) is a principal pathway for transport of macromolecules essential for brain function across the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Antibodies or peptide ligands which bind RMT recep...

    Authors: Wandong Zhang, Qing Yan Liu, Arsalan S. Haqqani, Sonia Leclerc, Ziying Liu, François Fauteux, Ewa Baumann, Christie E. Delaney, Dao Ly, Alexandra T. Star, Eric Brunette, Caroline Sodja, Melissa Hewitt, Jagdeep K. Sandhu and Danica B. Stanimirovic

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:47

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  30. Severe intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is one of the most devastating neurological complications in preterm infants, with the majority suffering long-term neurological morbidity and up to 50% developing post...

    Authors: Leandro Castaneyra-Ruiz, James P. McAllister II., Diego M. Morales, Steven L. Brody, Albert M. Isaacs and David D. Limbrick Jr.

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:46

    Content type: Study protocol

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  31. Pediatric hydrocephalus is a devastating and costly disease. The mainstay of treatment is still surgical shunting of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). These shunts fail at a high rate and impose a significant burden ...

    Authors: Jacob Gluski, Paul Zajciw, Prashant Hariharan, Amanda Morgan, Diego M. Morales, Andrew Jea, William Whitehead, Neena Marupudi, Steven Ham, Sandeep Sood, James P. McAllister II, David D. Limbrick Jr. and Carolyn A. Harris

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:45

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  32. The complexity of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and neurovascular unit (NVU) was and still is a challenge to bridge. A highly selective, restrictive and dynamic barrier, formed at the interface of blood and br...

    Authors: Anuska V. Andjelkovic, Svetlana M. Stamatovic, Chelsea M. Phillips, Gabriela Martinez-Revollar and Richard F. Keep

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:44

    Content type: Review

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  33. 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of CSF can make an important contribution to the understanding of hydrodynamic changes in various neurological diseases but remains limited in clinical application due ...

    Authors: Elena Jaeger, Kristina Sonnabend, Frank Schaarschmidt, David Maintz, Kilian Weiss and Alexander C. Bunck

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:43

    Content type: Research

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  34. HIV associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) are the spectrum of cognitive impairments present in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The number of patients affected with HAND...

    Authors: Amila Omeragic, Olanre Kayode, Md Tozammel Hoque and Reina Bendayan

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:42

    Content type: Review

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  35. Proper neuronal function is directly dependent on the composition, turnover, and amount of interstitial fluid that bathes the cells. Most of the interstitial fluid is likely to be derived from ion and water tr...

    Authors: Daphne M. P. Naessens, Bram F. Coolen, Judith de Vos, Ed VanBavel, Gustav J. Strijkers and Erik N. T. P. Bakker

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:41

    Content type: Research

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  36. Measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) is crucial in the management of many neurological conditions. However, due to the invasiveness, high cost, and required expertise of available ICP monitoring techniqu...

    Authors: Nicolas Canac, Kian Jalaleddini, Samuel G. Thorpe, Corey M. Thibeault and Robert B. Hamilton

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:40

    Content type: Review

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  37. Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is observed in association with a range of brain disorders. There is limited insight into the regulatory mechanisms of ICP under physiological conditions, and consequently ...

    Authors: Sajedeh Eftekhari, Connar Stanley James Westgate, Katrine Printz Johansen, Signe Rath Bruun and Rigmor H. Jensen

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:39

    Content type: Research

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  38. The United States faces a national crisis involving opioid medications, where currently more than 130 people die every day. To combat this epidemic, a better understanding is needed of how opioids penetrate in...

    Authors: Jacquelyn A. Brown, Shannon L. Faley, Yajuan Shi, Kathleen M. Hillgren, Geri A. Sawada, Thomas K. Baker, John P. Wikswo and Ethan S. Lippmann

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:38

    Content type: Research

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  39. Pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) represents one of the most devastating and lethal brain tumors in children with a median survival of 12 months. The high mortality rate can be explained by the...

    Authors: Clémence Deligne, Johan Hachani, Sophie Duban-Deweer, Samuel Meignan, Pierre Leblond, Angel M. Carcaboso, Yasuteru Sano, Fumitaka Shimizu, Takashi Kanda, Fabien Gosselet, Marie-Pierre Dehouck and Caroline Mysiorek

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:37

    Content type: Research

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  40. The blood–brain barrier (BBB) plays an important role as a biological barrier by regulating molecular transport between circulating blood and the brain parenchyma. In drug development, the accurate evaluation ...

    Authors: Misaki Yamashita, Hiromasa Aoki, Tadahiro Hashita, Takahiro Iwao and Tamihide Matsunaga

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:36

    Content type: Research

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  41. The choroid plexus (CP) forming the blood–cerebrospinal fluid (B-CSF) barrier is among the least studied structures of the central nervous system (CNS) despite its clinical importance. The CP is an epithelio-e...

    Authors: Peter Solár, Alemeh Zamani, Lucie Kubíčková, Petr Dubový and Marek Joukal

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:35

    Content type: Review

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  42. Sixty years have passed since neurosurgeon Nils Lundberg presented his thesis about intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring, which represents a milestone for its clinical introduction. Monitoring of ICP has sin...

    Authors: Karen Brastad Evensen and Per Kristian Eide

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:34

    Content type: Review

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  43. Symptomatic or active hydrocephalus in children is linked to an elevation in intracranial pressure (ICP), which is likely to be multifactorial in origin. The CSF outflow resistance, venous sinus resistance and...

    Authors: Grant Alexander Bateman, Swee Leong Yap, Gopinath Musuwadi Subramanian and Alexander Robert Bateman

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:33

    Content type: Research

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  45. The most threatening metastases in breast cancer are brain metastases, which correlate with a very poor overall survival, but also a limited quality of life. A key event for the metastatic progression of breas...

    Authors: Carolin J. Curtaz, Constanze Schmitt, Saskia-Laureen Herbert, Jonas Feldheim, Nicolas Schlegel, Fabien Gosselet, Carsten Hagemann, Norbert Roewer, Patrick Meybohm, Achim Wöckel and Malgorzata Burek

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:31

    Content type: Research

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  47. Infusion testing is a common procedure to determine whether shunting will be beneficial in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus. The method has a well-developed theoretical foundation and corresponding ...

    Authors: Vegard Vinje, Anders Eklund, Kent-Andre Mardal, Marie E. Rognes and Karen-Helene Støverud

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:29

    Content type: Research

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  48. Iron is crucial for proper functioning of all organs including the brain. Deficiencies and excess of iron are common and contribute to substantial morbidity and mortality. Whereas iron’s involvement in erythro...

    Authors: James R. Connor, Kari Duck, Stephanie Patton, Ian A. Simpson, Lynn Marie Trotti, Richard Allen, Christopher J. Earley and David Rye

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:28

    Content type: Short paper

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  49. Several secreted factors have been identified as drivers of cerebral vasculature development and inducers of blood–brain barrier (BBB) differentiation. Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) is central ...

    Authors: Ofri Bar, Sivan Gelb, Kian Atamny, Shira Anzi and Ayal Ben-Zvi

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:27

    Content type: Research

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  50. Post-traumatic hydrocephalus (PTH) is potentially under-diagnosed and under-treated, generating the need for a more efficient diagnostic tool. We aim to report CSF dynamics of patients with post-traumatic vent...

    Authors: Afroditi D. Lalou, Virginia Levrini, Marek Czosnyka, Laurent Gergelé, Matthew Garnett, Angelos Kolias, Peter J. Hutchinson and Zofia Czosnyka

    Citation: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2020 17:24

    Content type: Research

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