This Week in Science

Dec 24, 2011

In Science this week, researchers from the Université de Montréal report on their study of the role of the Hedgehog pathway in the function of the blood-brain barrier. They found that astrocytes secrete Sonic hedgehog and that the endothelial cells of the blood-brain barrier express Hedgehog receptors.

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