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]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0008065 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-nerve_barrier ]
Synonyms: blood-nerve barrier
Term information
- Wikipedia:Blood-nerve_barrier
- MESH:D049428 (https://github.com/biopragmatics/biomappings)
Term relations
- cell layer
- part of some nervous system
- adjacent to some haemolymphatic fluid
- in taxon some Chordata
- adjacent to some nerve