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Blood-brain barrier

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Lacking a strong blood-brain barrier, germ-free mice (left) can't prevent a radioactive tracer (yellow) from entering the brain the way that mice with microbes (middle) can. But adding microbes to germ-free mice (right) restores the blood-brain barrier.
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