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Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood–Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) represents the tightest endothelial barrier within the cardiovascular system characterized by very low ionic permeability. Our aim was to describe the setups, electrodes, and instruments to measure electrical resistance across brain microvessels and culture models of th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8231150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34208338 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12060685 |
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author | Vigh, Judit P. Kincses, András Ozgür, Burak Walter, Fruzsina R. Santa-Maria, Ana Raquel Valkai, Sándor Vastag, Mónika Neuhaus, Winfried Brodin, Birger Dér, András Deli, Mária A. |
author_facet | Vigh, Judit P. Kincses, András Ozgür, Burak Walter, Fruzsina R. Santa-Maria, Ana Raquel Valkai, Sándor Vastag, Mónika Neuhaus, Winfried Brodin, Birger Dér, András Deli, Mária A. |
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description | The blood–brain barrier (BBB) represents the tightest endothelial barrier within the cardiovascular system characterized by very low ionic permeability. Our aim was to describe the setups, electrodes, and instruments to measure electrical resistance across brain microvessels and culture models of the BBB, as well as critically assess the influence of often neglected physical and technical parameters such as temperature, viscosity, current density generated by different electrode types, surface size, circumference, and porosity of the culture insert membrane. We demonstrate that these physical and technical parameters greatly influence the measurement of transendothelial electrical resistance/resistivity (TEER) across BBB culture models resulting in severalfold differences in TEER values of the same biological model, especially in the low-TEER range. We show that elevated culture medium viscosity significantly increases, while higher membrane porosity decreases TEER values. TEER data measured by chopstick electrodes can be threefold higher than values measured by chamber electrodes due to different electrode size and geometry, resulting in current distribution inhomogeneity. An additional shunt resistance at the circumference of culture inserts results in lower TEER values. A detailed description of setups and technical parameters is crucial for the correct interpretation and comparison of TEER values of BBB models. |
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spelling | pubmed-82311502021-06-26 Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood–Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods Vigh, Judit P. Kincses, András Ozgür, Burak Walter, Fruzsina R. Santa-Maria, Ana Raquel Valkai, Sándor Vastag, Mónika Neuhaus, Winfried Brodin, Birger Dér, András Deli, Mária A. Micromachines (Basel) Review The blood–brain barrier (BBB) represents the tightest endothelial barrier within the cardiovascular system characterized by very low ionic permeability. Our aim was to describe the setups, electrodes, and instruments to measure electrical resistance across brain microvessels and culture models of the BBB, as well as critically assess the influence of often neglected physical and technical parameters such as temperature, viscosity, current density generated by different electrode types, surface size, circumference, and porosity of the culture insert membrane. We demonstrate that these physical and technical parameters greatly influence the measurement of transendothelial electrical resistance/resistivity (TEER) across BBB culture models resulting in severalfold differences in TEER values of the same biological model, especially in the low-TEER range. We show that elevated culture medium viscosity significantly increases, while higher membrane porosity decreases TEER values. TEER data measured by chopstick electrodes can be threefold higher than values measured by chamber electrodes due to different electrode size and geometry, resulting in current distribution inhomogeneity. An additional shunt resistance at the circumference of culture inserts results in lower TEER values. A detailed description of setups and technical parameters is crucial for the correct interpretation and comparison of TEER values of BBB models. MDPI 2021-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8231150/ /pubmed/34208338 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12060685 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Vigh, Judit P. Kincses, András Ozgür, Burak Walter, Fruzsina R. Santa-Maria, Ana Raquel Valkai, Sándor Vastag, Mónika Neuhaus, Winfried Brodin, Birger Dér, András Deli, Mária A. Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood–Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods |
title | Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood–Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods |
title_full | Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood–Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods |
title_fullStr | Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood–Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods |
title_full_unstemmed | Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood–Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods |
title_short | Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Measurement across the Blood–Brain Barrier: A Critical Review of Methods |
title_sort | transendothelial electrical resistance measurement across the blood–brain barrier: a critical review of methods |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8231150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34208338 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12060685 |
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