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The Blood-Brain Barrier Protects Against Inflammation but Creates Challenges for Brain Tumor Treatment
When it comes to inflammation, not all organs are created equal.
Some—including the brain and the spinal cord—are what’s known as “privileged.”By that, immunologists mean that it is very hard to produce inflammation in them, because these organs have very few immune cells. First, it is difficult for the immune cells to enter them to get in, and then the organs also have inhibitors that turn off the immune cells that do manage to gain entry.