Brain barriers and brain fluid research in 2016: advances, challenges and controversies

Richard F Keep; Hazel C Jones; Lester R Drewes

doi:10.1186/s12987-017-0052-7

Brain barriers and brain fluid research in 2016: advances, challenges and controversies

Fluids Barriers CNS. 2017 Feb 2;14(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s12987-017-0052-7.

Authors

Richard F Keep¹, Hazel C Jones², Lester R Drewes³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan, R5018 BSRB, 109 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2200, USA. rkeep@umich.edu.
² Gagle Brook House, Chesterton, Bicester, OX26 1UF, UK.
³ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth, Duluth, MN, 55812, USA.

Abstract

This editorial highlights some of the advances that occurred in relation to brain barriers and brain fluid research in 2016. It also aims to raise some of the attendant controversies and challenges in such research.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Animals
Blood-Brain Barrier*
Brain / anatomy & histology
Brain / physiology*
Cerebrospinal Fluid*
Humans