About this journal

Tissue Barriers is the first international interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the architecture, biological roles and regulation of tissue barriers and intercellular junctions. We publish high quality peer-reviewed articles that cover a wide range of topics including structure and functions of the diverse and complex tissue barriers that occur across tissue and cell types, including the molecular composition and dynamics of polarized cell junctions and cell-cell interactions during normal homeostasis, injury and disease state. Tissue barrier formation in regenerative medicine and restoration of tissue and organ function is also of interest.

Tissue Barriers publishes several categories of articles including: Original Research Papers, Short Communications, Technical Papers, Reviews, Perspectives and Commentaries, Hypothesis and Meeting Reports. Reviews and Perspectives/Commentaries will typically be invited. We also anticipate to publish special issues that are devoted to rapidly developing or controversial areas of research. Suggestions for topics are welcome.

Tissue Barriers objectives:

• Promote interdisciplinary awareness and collaboration between researchers working with epithelial, epidermal and endothelial barriers and to build a broad and cohesive worldwide community of scientists interesting in this exciting field.
• Comprehend the enormous complexity of tissue barriers and map cross-talks and interactions between their different cellular and non-cellular components.
• Highlight the roles of tissue barrier dysfunctions in human diseases.
• Promote understanding and strategies for restoration of tissue barrier formation and function in regenerative medicine.
• Accelerate a search for pharmacological enhancers of tissue barriers as potential therapeutic agents.
• Understand and optimize drug delivery across epithelial and endothelial barriers.
  
  
  

Publication Office:

Taylor & Francis Group

530 Walnut Street | Suite 850

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Editor-in-Chief

Kursad Turksen
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
[email protected]

Editorial Board

David A. Antonetti - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US
William A. Banks - University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US
Konstantin G. Birukov - University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, US
Anthony Blikslager - NC State University, Raleigh, NC, US
Marjorie Brand - University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CA
Yan-Hua Chen - East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, US
Lina Dagnino - Wesetern University, London, ON, CA
Donna E. Davies - University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Thomas P. Davis - University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tuscon, AZ
Maria A. Deli - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU
Shanta Dhar - University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, US
F. Jeffrey Dilworth - Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, CA
Jannette M. Dufour - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, US
Michael B. Dwinell - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, US
Klaus Ebnet - University of Muenster, Muenster, DE
Britta Engelhardt - University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Michael Fromm - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, DE
Susan Hagen - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Jianghui Hou - Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Walter Hunziker - Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, SG
Junichi Ikenouchi - Kyushu University, Fukuoka, JP
Andrei Ivanov - Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, US
Anna Jezierski - National Research Council, Ottawa, CA
Laura Kerosuo Pahlberg - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, MD, US
Takashi Kojima - Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, JP
Masuo Kondoh - Showa Pharmaceutical University, Tokyo, JP
Antonis Kourtidis - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, US
Michael Koval - Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, US
Istvan A. Krizbai - Biological Research Center, Szeged, HU
Thomas Y. Ma - Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, US
Tracy A. Martin - Cardiff, UK
Maja Matis - University of Münster, Münster, DE
Alexa L. Mattheyses - The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Michael A. McGuckin - Mater Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, AU
Randall J. Mrsny - University of Bath, Bath, UK
Shigeo Ohno - Yokohama City University, Yokohama, JP
Mirna Perez-Moreno - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DE
Pawin Pongkorpsakol - Princess Srisavangavadhana College of Medicine, Bangkok, TH
Fariba Rezaee - Cleveland Clinic, OH, US
Gerhard Rogler - University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, CH
Christos Samakovlis - Stockholm University, Stockhom, SE
Michael Sigal - Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, DE
Peter G. Stanton - Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, VIC, AU
Sachiko Tsukita - Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Jerrold R. Turner - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
Sven C.D. van IJzendoorn - University of Groningen, Groningen, NL
Alex J. Vecchio - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln NE, US
Jian-Ying Wang - University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, US
Neuhaus Winfried - Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, AT
Rebecca A. Wingert - University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN