How to Use blood-brain barrier in a Sentence

blood-brain barrier

noun

• For instance, the tiniest pieces can cross the blood-brain barrier.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
• Most drugs can’t pass through the blood-brain barrier, a living border wall around the brain.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020
• But our brains are designed to keep things out, through something called the blood-brain barrier.
  — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
• At the base of the brain sits a dense constellation of cells known as the blood-brain barrier.
  — Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• In fact, some parts of the brain don’t have a traditional blood-brain barrier at all.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023
• The particles were also able to cross the blood-brain barrier.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• This occurs when cancer cells migrate through the blood-brain barrier.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
• The caffeine in coffee tightens up the blood-brain barrier and can decrease how much of the drug makes it to your brain.
  — Courtney Southwick, Health, 23 July 2024
• Some forms of magnesium may not readily cross the blood-brain barrier.
  — Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2024
• The team also found that clusterin readily attached to the cells that form the blood-brain barrier.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
• In crossing the blood-brain barrier, caffeine can act on the central nervous system.
  — Science & Food, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2015
• There are even species whose neurotoxic compounds get through our own blood-brain barrier, a feat that no wasp venom can yet achieve.
  — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• The procedure to open the blood-brain barrier only takes four minutes and is performed while the patient is awake.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
• These proteins are usually flushed into the bloodstream through the blood-brain barrier.
  — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 26 June 2026
• Due to the blood-brain barrier, biomarkers couldn’t be found in sufficient quantities.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• To get around the blood-brain barrier, the team injected the cells directly into the tumor site on the brain through a catheter.
  — Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2026
• What leukotriene modifiers such as Singulair are not supposed to do is cross the blood-brain barrier.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
• This structure is called the blood-brain barrier, or BBB for short, and the drug should not have been able to pass through it.
  — Daniela Kaufer, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
• That’s because the brain is surrounded by a semipermeable membrane called the blood-brain barrier.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• This is also the first study that shows how quickly the blood-brain barrier closes after being opened by the ultrasound.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
• Unlike most pathogens, Toxoplasma can cross the blood-brain barrier and invade brain cells.
  — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• The blood-brain barrier is comprised of very tightly connected cells lining the inside of blood vessels.
  — Richard J. Price, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
• Scientists around the world engineered viruses that could slide through the blood-brain barrier that walls off our most vital organ from the rest of the body.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 12 May 2026
• This tipped the scientists off that there must be some molecule from the cancerous cells that can cross the blood-brain barrier and inflict good, not harm.
  — New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026
• The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2025
• Sleep apnea can break down the blood-brain barrier that keeps bacteria from reaching the brain and doing permanent damage.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2022
• Inflammatory molecules can cross the blood-brain barrier and cause damage to the brain.
  — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
• Better yet, two of them were already known to cross the blood-brain barrier, so could potentially reach the cells that Parkinson's kills.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2017
• But a feverish quality also suggests a work of art that has crossed the blood-brain barrier and infected its audience.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 1 May 2024
• Too much inflammation can also break down the protective wall known as the blood-brain barrier and lead to brain swelling, seizures or spread of infection.
  — Dr. Minali Nigam and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 29 July 2020