Astrocytic laminin regulates pericyte differentiation and maintains blood brain barrier integrity

Yao Yao, Zu-Lin Chen, Erin H. Norris & Sidney Strickland.

Nature Communications, 2014


In this article, conditional knockout mice and an acute adenovirus-mediated knockdown model were used to show that lack of astrocytic laminin, a brain-specific BM component, induces BBB breakdown.


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