Data on the existence of undirectional transports both ways, have accumulater in our laboratory and in the recent literature. They will be reviewed in this paper. It remains for future studies to assess the exact importance of these transport mechanisms, and of the true permeability factors (i.e. passive restriction to diffusion) for the total bloodbrain barrier effect.
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