How to Use blood-brain barrier in a Sentence

blood-brain barrier

noun

• At the base of the brain sits a dense constellation of cells known as the blood-brain barrier.
  — Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• This structure is called the blood-brain barrier, or BBB for short, and the drug should not have been able to pass through it.
  — Daniela Kaufer, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
• Most drugs can’t pass through the blood-brain barrier, a living border wall around the brain.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020
• The caffeine in coffee tightens up the blood-brain barrier and can decrease how much of the drug makes it to your brain.
  — Courtney Southwick, Health, 23 July 2024
• In fact, some parts of the brain don’t have a traditional blood-brain barrier at all.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023
• The particles were also able to cross the blood-brain barrier.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• The team also found that clusterin readily attached to the cells that form the blood-brain barrier.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
• With its added methyl-group molecule, Pervitin races across the blood-brain barrier a bit faster than Benzedrine.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2019
• The procedure to open the blood-brain barrier only takes four minutes and is performed while the patient is awake.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
• Better yet, two of them were already known to cross the blood-brain barrier, so could potentially reach the cells that Parkinson's kills.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2017
• In children, particularly under the age of 10 or babies in the womb, the metal can pass through the blood-brain barrier and kill off brain cells.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
• In children, particularly those under the age of 10 or babies in the womb, the metal can pass through the blood-brain barrier and kill off brain cells.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 27 Sep. 2018
• In crossing the blood-brain barrier, caffeine can act on the central nervous system.
  — Science & Food, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2015
• What leukotriene modifiers such as Singulair are not supposed to do is cross the blood-brain barrier.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
• One of the most influential researchers on the role of the blood-brain barrier in stroke and Alzheimer’s, Zlokovic was the only common author across the 37 papers, and the senior author on 29.
  — Bycharles Piller, science.org, 8 Nov. 2024
• This is also the first study that shows how quickly the blood-brain barrier closes after being opened by the ultrasound.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
• These cytokines are seemingly able to cross the semipermeable network of capillaries that connect the brain to the rest of the body (known as the blood-brain barrier).
  — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2018
• Some forms of magnesium may not readily cross the blood-brain barrier.
  — Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2024
• That’s because the brain is surrounded by a semipermeable membrane called the blood-brain barrier.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• Damage to the blood-brain barrier caused by inflammation can result in the brain's inability to send messages from the brain to other parts of the body.
  — Dr. Odelia Lewis and Sony Salzman, ABC News, 30 July 2021
• There are even species whose neurotoxic compounds get through our own blood-brain barrier, a feat that no wasp venom can yet achieve.
  — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• Due to the blood-brain barrier, biomarkers couldn’t be found in sufficient quantities.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• Too much inflammation can also break down the protective wall known as the blood-brain barrier and lead to brain swelling, seizures or spread of infection.
  — Dr. Minali Nigam and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 29 July 2020
• Unlike most pathogens, Toxoplasma can cross the blood-brain barrier and invade brain cells.
  — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• Researchers have found signs that the virus can establish a foothold of sorts on the periphery of the brain, where the protective blood-brain barrier opens up to allow key molecules to slip through.
  — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2025
• The glowing gold stars are astrocytes: these cells control the permeability of the blood-brain barrier and are named for their starlike shape.
  — Liz Tormes, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
• Research on microplastics in the body is still new, and whether these microscopic bits of plastic can pass through the blood-brain barrier in humans is still a big question.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• These metals also have the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier, a feature of the human nervous system that defends the brain from pathogens and toxins in the blood, according to a 2015 study.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2022
• This study suggests that small-particle HDL might help maintain this gray matter by crossing the blood-brain barrier to support brain function and protect against atrophy.
  — Hannah Singleton, Health, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025