Episode 123: Respiratory and Circulatory Systems Part 2
The Science of Everything Podcast
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What Is the Blood Brain Barrier?
The blood band barrier is a series of mechanisms including basically seals called gap junctions between the epithelial cells that surround the capillary. It's very important because it helps protect the brain from toxins and many infections, and also psychoactive substances. Gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide and hormones can get acrossa the blood bain barrier, but many solutes and pathegens can't. The typical, sort of average, roughly tit slightly difernt between men and women will be about one 20 over 80. If you have high blood pressure, that's called hyper sion. And if you have lowBlood pressure, that just meen or hypo tension above and below
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