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Achieving a better understanding of how the blood-brain barrier works

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Departments ETH Zurich Select a department Language Selection en You are here Homepage chevron_right News & events chevron_right … ETH News chevron_right All articles chevron_right 2023 chevron_right February chevron_right Achieving a better understanding of how the blood-brain barrier works Achieving a better understanding of how the blood-brain barrier works Re­search Life sci­ences and medi­cine Up to now, the use of mod­els to re­search the bar­rier that sep­ar­ates the cir­cu­lat­ory from the nervous sys­tem has proven to be either lim­ited or ex­tremely com­plic­ated. Re­search­ers at ETH Zurich have de­veloped a more real­istic model that can also be used to bet­ter ex­plore new treat­ments for brain tu­mours. 17.02.2023 by Vin­zenz Greiner mode_comment Num­ber of com­ments Schematic representation of a blood vessel surrounded by nerve cells In or­der to bet­ter un­der­stand how the blood-​brain bar­rier pro­tects our cent­ral nervous sys­tem from harm­ful sub­stances in the blood­stream, ETH re­search­ers have de­veloped a new in-​vitro model. (Im­age: Gunilla Elam / Sci­ence Photo Lib­rary)

Up to now, the use of models to research the barrier that separates the circulatory from the nervous system has proven to be either limited or extremely complicated. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a more realistic model that can also be used to better explore new treatments for brain tumours.

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