Alterations in Pericyte Subpopulations Are Associated with Elevated Blood-Tumor Barrier Permeability in Experimental Brain Metastasis of Breast Cancer (2016)

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is modified to a blood-tumor barrier (BTB) as a brain metastasisdevelops from breast or other cancers. We (i) quantified the permeability of experimental brainmetastases, (ii) determined the composition of the BTB, and (iii) identified which elements of the BTB distinguished metastases of lower permeability from those with higher permeability.