the blood brain barrier; are blood vessels different in the brain so medicine can’t get in when it could cross into other tissue from blood elsewhere in the body?

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the blood brain barrier; are blood vessels different in the brain so medicine can’t get in when it could cross into other tissue from blood elsewhere in the body?

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The blood brain barrier is a physical barrier that separates the brain from any blood. The barrier is very selective in what is allowed through, so medicines need to be carefully designed to cross it, if it even can.

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