Vu Kiem, Weksler Babette, Romero Ignacio, Couraud Pierre-Olivier, Gelli Angie
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, Davis, CA, USA.
Eukaryot Cell. 2009 Nov;8(11):1803-7. doi: 10.1128/EC.00240-09. Epub 2009 Sep 18.
Cryptococcus neoformans cells must cross the blood-brain barrier prior to invading the central nervous system. Here we demonstrate that the immortalized human brain endothelial cell line HCMEC/D3 is a useful alternative to primary brain endothelial cells as a model of the blood-brain barrier for studies of central nervous system infection.
新型隐球菌细胞在侵入中枢神经系统之前必须穿过血脑屏障。在此,我们证明永生化人脑内皮细胞系HCMEC/D3作为血脑屏障模型,可替代原代脑内皮细胞用于中枢神经系统感染的研究。