Preferred Label : blood nerve barrier;
Uberon definition : barrier between the perineurium of peripheral nerves and the vascular endothelium
of endoneurial capillaries. The perineurium acts as a diffusion barrier, but ion permeability
at the blood-nerve barrier is still higher than at the blood-brain barrier[GO].;
Uberon synonym : blood-nerve barrier;
Origin ID : 0003209;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- adjacent to
- part of
barrier between the perineurium of peripheral nerves and the vascular endothelium
of endoneurial capillaries. The perineurium acts as a diffusion barrier, but ion permeability
at the blood-nerve barrier is still higher than at the blood-brain barrier[GO].
