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Nature Medicine  2, 1307 - 1308 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm1296-1307

The Gulf War, stress and a leaky blood—brain barrier

Israel Hanin

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Maywood, Illinois, 60153, USA

Extreme stress renders the blood—brain barrier permeable to drugs that normally act peripherally (pages 1382−1385).

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