Cover; Copyright; List of Contributors; Preface; Contents; Part 1: Structural Considerations; Chapter 1. The composition of nervous membranes; Chapter 2. The intracerebral movement of proteins injected into blood and cerebrospinal fluid of mice; Chapter 3. Electron microscopic cytochemistry and microgasometric analysis of cholinesterase in the nervous system; Chapter 4. The fine structuie of the choroid plexus: Adult and developmental stages; Chapter 5. Transport and effects of cationic dyes and tetrazolium salts in the central nervous system

Chapter 6. The evidence that ganglioside, a metal, and chemical energy are involved in the serotonin household of synaptic vesicles from brainPart 2: Cerebrospinal Fluid; Chapter 7. Cerebrospinal fluid transport; Chapter 8. The choroid plexus as a glucose barrier; Chapter 9. Transport through the ependymal linings; Part 3: Substrates for Brain Metabolism; Chapter 10. Mechanisms of metabolite transport in various tissues; Chapter 11. A comparison of the transport system for amino acids in brain, intestine, kidney and tumour

Chapter 12. Transport as control mechanism of cerebral metabolite levelsChapter 13. Regional differences in cerebral amino acid transport; Chapter 14. Influence of elevated circulating levels of amino acids on cerebral concentrations and utilization of amino acids; Chapter 15. Specificity of cerebral amino acid transport: A kinetic analysis; Chapter 16. A possible enzyme barrier for ?-aminobutyric acid in the central nervous system; Part 4: Ion Movements; Chapter 17. Ion movements in isolated preparations from the mammalian brain; Chapter 18. Cation exchange in blood, brain and CSF

Chapter 19. Distribution of nonelectrolytes in the brain as affected by alterations in cerebrospinal fluid secretionPart 5: Factors Influencing Barrier Function; Chapter 20. Changes in barrier effect in pathological states; Chapter 21. Clinical importance of alterations in barrier; Chapter 22. Drug influence on the barrier; Chapter 23. Transport inhibition phenomena in unilateral chemical injury of blood-brain barrier; Chapter 24. Changes in blood-brain permeability during pharmacologically induced convulsions

CH4Chapter 25 .The effect of hypothermia on electric impedance and penetration of substances from the CSF into the periventricular brain tissueChapter 26. Changes in brain accumulation of amino acids and adenine associated with changes in the physiologic state; Chapter 27. The development of the blood-brain barrier; Chapter 28. Intrinsic amino acid levels and the blood-brain barrier; Part 6: Spaces in the Central Nervous System; Chapter 29. Introduction to session on brain spaces; Chapter 30 .Spaces in brain tissue in vitro and in vivo