Super-resolution imaging uncovers sparse occludin vs. clustered ZO1/claudin-5 architecture, and claudin-5 arrangement compacting during blood-brain-barrier tight-junction (TJ) maturation in which TJs become first restrictive to large and later to small molecules.

Detailed analysis of transporter expression and glucose uptake rates shows that carbohydrate import at the blood–brain barrier is adapted via TGF-βsignaling-dependent transcriptional regulation of carbohydrate transporters to protect the brain form effects of nutrient shortage.

Neuronal activity modulates blood–brain barrier permeability, influencing synaptic plasticity and local network reorganization in the healthy brain.

Shortage of blood-borne apolipoprotein-M–bound sphingosine-1-phosphate, which accompanies various brain disorders, causes paracellular leak and increase in transcytosis at the blood–brain barrier, which can be reversed, thus is of clinical relevance.

A polarized Moody/protein kinase A pathway plays an unrecognized central role in controlling the enormous cell growth and blood–brain barrier integrity in a highly coordinated spatiotemporal manner in brain homeostasis.

Sex differences in the age-related decline of blood-brain barrier function vary across brain regions, with a more pronounced decrease observed in males beginning in the early 60s.

Activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling in endothelial progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem cells partially induces the specialized blood–brain barrier phenotype while the same treatment in matured endothelial cells is less efficacious.

The invasion of Toxoplasma to the CNS across cortical capillaries is restricted by the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and exacerbated by the inflammatory response.

Endocytosis through the Drosophila blood–brain barrier influences and depends upon sleep.

Histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) and polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) control endothelial gene expression for BBB development and prevented Wnt/β-catenin target genes from being expressed in adult CNS ECs.