Not all mouse blood-brain barriers are created equal

James Felker^{1

2}, Sameer Agnihotri^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Editorial

James Felker et al. Neuro Oncol. 2021.

. 2021 May 5;23(5):705-706.

doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noab056.

James Felker^{1

2}, Sameer Agnihotri^{3

4}

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Patient-derived orthotopic xenograft models of medulloblastoma lack a functional blood-brain barrier.
Genovesi LA, Puttick S, Millar A, Kojic M, Ji P, Lagendijk AK, Brighi C, Bonder CS, Adolphe C, Wainwright BJ. Genovesi LA, et al. Neuro Oncol. 2021 May 5;23(5):732-742. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa266. Neuro Oncol. 2021. PMID: 33258962 Free PMC article.

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