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Can antibiotics pass the blood brain barrier?
by tgb 8y ago
Can antibiotics pass the blood brain barrier?
- blevin 8y agoSome do, including penicillin: “Antibiotics that cross the BBB tend to have certain physical characteristics including: small molecular size, being lipophilic, binding to fatty molecules on cell membranes, low plasma protein binding and other specialized characteristics“ http://lymemd.blogspot.com/2013/03/blood-brain-barrier.html?m=1 http://lymemd.blogspot.com/2013/03/blood-brain-barrier.html?...