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blood nerve barrier

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barrier between the perineurium of peripheral nerves and the vascular endothelium of endoneurial capillaries. The perineurium acts as a diffusion barrier, but ion permeability at the blood-nerve barrier is still higher than at the blood-brain barrier[GO]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0008065 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-nerve_barrier ]

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blood nerve barrier

Synonyms
  • blood-nerve barrier
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UBERON:0003209