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Proceedings of the September 2000 conference that addressed issues related to the role of the blood-brain barrier in the pathogenesis of brain disorders. The 32 contributions cover an overview of the structure and function of the blood-brain barrier in vivo, expression and modulation of blood-brain monocarboxylate transporters, measurement and prediction of BBB permeability, recent advances in the development of cell culture models for the blood-brain and blood-CSF barrier, carbon dioxide gas as an angiographic contrast agent in the cerebral circulation, entry of viruses into the central nervous system, an animal model for the study of BBB modulators, strategies for increasing drug delivery to the brain, the role of plasma protein binding in drug delivery to brain, and other topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
