population, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2006 and 2007-2008
In the context of FASD, neurological impairments are caused by prenatal alcohol exposure, which causes general neurological damage to the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system, or the autonomic nervous system
BBB structure Brain endothelial cells and tight junctions The permeability of the BBB is one of the leading metrics used to assess BBB integrity and, it is a measure of the degree of both paracellular and transcellular transport [9]
Author Contributions RJW: Conceptualization (lead), Methodology (lead), Investigation (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Funding acquisition (equal), Writing-original draft (lead)