Fluids and Barriers of the CNS

Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that considers manuscripts on all CNS fluids and barrier systems in health and disease.

Editors-in-Chief

Hazel C Jones, King's College London
Tetsuya Terasaki, Tohoku University

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Short paper

Elevated CSF histamine levels in multiple sclerosis patients

Kallweit U, Aritake K, Bassetti CL, Blumenthal S, Hayaishi O, Linnebank M, Baumann CR and Urade Y Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:19 (9 May 2013)
Research

Aquaporin-4 expression in the cerebrospinal fluid in congenital human hydrocephalus

Castañeyra-Ruiz L, González-Marrero I, González-Toledo JM, Castañeyra-Ruiz A, de Paz-Carmona H, Castañeyra-Perdomo A and Carmona-Calero EM Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:18 (9 May 2013)
Research

Quantitative proteomics comparison of arachnoid cyst fluid and cerebrospinal fluid collected perioperatively from arachnoid cyst patients

Berle M, Kroksveen AC, Garberg H, Aarhus M, Haaland ØA, Wester K, Ulvik RJ, Helland C et al. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:17 (29 April 2013)
Review

The hCMEC/D3 cell line as a model of the human blood brain barrier

Weksler B, Romero IA and Couraud PO Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:16 (26 March 2013)
Research

Measurement of cystatin C functional activity in the cerebrospinal fluid of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and control subjects

Wilson ME, Boumaza I and Bowser R Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:15 (15 March 2013)
Research

Na,K-ATPase alpha isoforms at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid-trigeminal nerve and blood-retina interfaces in the rat

Arakaki X, McCleary P, Techy M, Chiang J, Kuo L, Fonteh AN, Armstrong B, Levy D et al. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:14 (14 March 2013)
Study protocol

Blood-brain barrier transport of amyloid beta peptides in efflux pump knock-out animals evaluated by in vivo optical imaging

Zhang W, Xiong H, Callaghan D, Liu H, Jones A, Pei K, Fatehi D, Brunette E et al. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:13 (25 February 2013)
Review

The mastermind approach to CNS drug therapy: translational prediction of human brain distribution, target site kinetics, and therapeutic effects

de Lange ECM Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:12 (22 February 2013)
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Belorussian translation

Comment on: Marques et al. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2011, 8:10
Fluid dynamics and Alzheimer's disease

Comment on: Wostyn et al. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2010, 6:14
Minocycline in Hydrocephalus

Comment on: McAllister et al. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2010, 7:7

Latest review

The hCMEC/D3 cell line as a model of the human blood brain barrier

Weksler B, Romero IA and Couraud PO

Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2013, 10:16

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Editors' profiles

Hazel C. Jones, Editor-in-Chief

Hazel Jones is currently Courtesy Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida, and Visiting Research Associate, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London. She received a BSc degree in Physiology (University College London), MSc in pharmacology (Oxford) and PhD in Zoology (University of Hull). In 1988 she moved from Hull to King's College London and in 1991 she moved to the University of Florida as Research Professor. In 2004 she returned to the UK, retired from research and started as Editor in Chief of the journal Fluids and Barriers of the CNS (previously Cerebrospinal Fluid Research).

Tetsuya Terasaki, Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Tetsuya Terasaki is currently the Distinguished Professor of Tohoku University. He received a B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Kanazawa University in 1977 and Ph.D. degree in Biopharmacy from University of Tokyo in 1982. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Kanazawa University in 1982, Associate Professor of University of Tokyo in 1992, Professor of Tohoku University in 1996 and Distinguished Professor of Tohoku University in 2008.

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Brain Barriers and their Microenvironment: Emerging Models and Techniques
Edited by: Dr Elizabeth de Lange, Dr Danica Stanimirovic, Prof Britta Engelhardt
Published: 10 January 2013
Last updated: 22 February 2013