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Describe the structural basis of the "blood-brain barrier" and list two characteristics of a drug that
e.g., like alcohol or lipid soluble or possess a structure allowing it to bind to a transport protein to be carried across these lipid membranes.
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would allow it to pass through the BBB.
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