Circulating Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells (cBMECs) as Potential Biomarkers of the Blood–Brain Barrier Disorders Caused by Microbial and Non-Microbial Factors

• Sheng-He Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Lin Wang, Feng Chi

  * E-mail: shhuang@hsc.usc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Lin Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Lin Wang, Feng Chi

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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• Feng Chi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Lin Wang, Feng Chi

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Chun-Hua Wu,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Hong Cao,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Aimin Zhang,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Failure, The 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

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• Ambrose Jong

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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