Nature Medicine
2, 1307 - 1308 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm1296-1307
The Gulf War, stress and a leaky bloodbrain barrierIsrael HaninDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Maywood, Illinois, 60153, USA Extreme stress renders the bloodbrain barrier permeable to drugs that normally act peripherally (pages 1382−1385). REFERENCES
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