Question

is the blood brain barrier weaker in immunocompromised individuals?

Answer 1

Question

Immunocompromised are those individuals that have very weak immune system and therefore have less capacity to fight with any infection or disease . This weak immune system could be due to having disease such as cancer, AIDS and diabetes.

Blood brain barrier restrict the passage of pathogen to get enter in the brain or central nervous system. When the person have weaken immune system they have some chances of having weaker blood brain barrier. But generally the disease related with neurons are more likely to weak the blood brain barrier as compare to immunocomprised individual.

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