Two aspects of the blood–brain barrier — the transport of lipids to the brain and the transport of molecules across cells lining blood vessels — have been shown to be regulated by the same protein, Mfsd2a. See Letters p.503 & p.507
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Betsholtz, C. Double function at the blood–brain barrier. Nature 509, 432–433 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13339
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