A 15-year-old girl is taken to see a physician because of a sore throat. An antibiotic is prescribed that can enter most tissues of the body but cannot penetrate the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier can be attributed primarily to which cell type?
Correct Answer: Endothelial cell
Description: The endothelial cells lining all blood vessels in the brain constitute the blood-brain barrier. Tight junctions between endothelial cells forms blood-brain barrier. The purpose of the blood-brain barrier is to protect the chemical environment of the brain from rapid changes in composition that occur normally in the rest of the body fluids.
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