The blood-brain barrier consists of

A) a sheet of muscle tissue that separates the brain from the skull.
B) aligned blood cells.
C) capillaries joined by desmosomes that are closer together than they are elsewhere.
D) capillaries whose cells are firmly attached by overlapping tight junctions surrounded
by astrocytes.


D

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