Cerebral microcirculation shear stress levels determine Neisseria meningitidis attachment sites along the blood–brain barrier

Cerebral microcirculation shear stress levels determine Neisseria meningitidis attachment sites along the blood–brain barrier

Neisseria meningitidis is a commensal bacterium of the human nasopharynx. Occasionally, this bacterium reaches the bloodstream and causes meningitis after crossing the blood–brain barrier by an unknown mechanism. An immunohistological study of a meningococcal sepsis case revealed that neisserial ad...

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Main Authors: Mairey, Emilie, Genovesio, Auguste, Donnadieu, Emmanuel, Bernard, Christine, Jaubert, Francis, Pinard, Elisabeth, Seylaz, Jacques, Olivo-Marin, Jean-Christophe, Nassif, Xavier, Duménil, Guillaume
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 2006
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2118386/

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