Gliotoxin penetrates and impairs the integrity of the human blood-brain barrier in vitro

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Isogenic blood-brain barrier models based on patient-derived stem cells display inter-individual differences in cell maturation and functionality

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Environmentally relevant level of aflatoxin B 1 elicits toxic pro-inflammatory response in murine CNS-derived cells

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Impact of Mycotoxins Secreted by Aspergillus Molds on the Inflammatory Response of Human Corneal Epithelial Cells

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Minimum Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Thresholds for the Study of Small and Large Molecule Drug Transport in a Human in Vitro Blood–Brain Barrier Model

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Gliotoxin Suppresses Macrophage Immune Function by Subverting Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-Trisphosphate Homeostasis

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Fungal Infection in the Brain: What We Learned from Intravital Imaging

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Transitory loss of glia and the subsequent modulation in inflammatory cytokines/chemokines regulate paracellular claudin-5 expression in endothelial cells

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Cytotoxic effects of aflatoxin B1 on human brain microvascular endothelial cells of the blood-brain barrier

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bFGF Protects Against Blood-Brain Barrier Damage Through Junction Protein Regulation via PI3K-Akt-Rac1 Pathway Following Traumatic Brain Injury

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Impact of aflatoxin B1 on hypothalamic neuropeptides regulating feeding behavior

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Altered Nrf2 Signaling Mediates Hypoglycemia-Induced Blood–Brain Barrier Endothelial Dysfunction In Vitro

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Curcumin Protects β-Lactoglobulin Fibril Formation and Fibril-Induced Neurotoxicity in PC12Cells

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Bile acids permeabilize the blood brain barrier after bile duct ligation in rats via Rac1-dependent mechanisms

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HIV-1 induces cytoskeletal alterations and Rac1 activation during monocyte-blood–brain barrier interactions: modulatory role of CCR5

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A retinoic acid-enhanced, multicellular human blood-brain barrier model derived from stem cell sources

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Candidacerebral abscesses: a case report and review of the literature

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Efficient and Rapid Derivation of Primitive Neural Stem Cells and Generation of Brain Subtype Neurons From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

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Hyaluronic Acid Receptor CD44 Deficiency Is Associated with Decreased Cryptococcus neoformansBrain Infection

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Derivation of blood-brain barrier endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells

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Molecular mechanisms of cryptococcal meningitis

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Involvement of human CD44 during Cryptococcus neoformans infection of brain microvascular endothelial cells

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Cdc42- and Rac1-mediated endothelial lumen formation requires Pak2, Pak4 and Par3, and PKC-dependent signaling

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