The cells in the blood vessel walls are joined tightly to one another, forming the so-called blood – brain barrier, which protects the brain from toxins that might enter through the bloodstream.

Hyperthermia alters the cell walls by means of so-called heat shock proteins.

Skateboarders, most notably Ty Page, Bruce Logan, Bobby Piercy, Kevin Reed, and the Z-Boys ( so-called because of their local Zephyr surf shop ) started to skate the vertical walls of swimming pools that were left empty in the 1976 California drought.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

The peak of the so-called " Rosicrucianism furor " was reached when two mysterious posters appeared on the walls of Paris in 1622 within a few days of each other.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

As a consequence, depictions on temple walls and movable objects ( especially the so-called ' ceramic codex ') are used to aid reconstruction of pre-Spanish Mayan mythology.

Urban areas outside the city walls, so-called Vorstädte, were often enclosed by their own set of walls and integrated into the defense of the city.

The archaic inhabited places spread out protected by the so-called Servian walls, made with stone blocks placed in alternate lines and dating back to the beginning of the 3rd century BC.

If this is true, then the so-called Justinian walls of Nikopolis, enclosing only one-sixth of the city founded by Augustus, were erected not before 474.

After 1835 many workhouses were constructed with the central buildings surrounded by work and exercise yards enclosed behind brick walls, so-called " pauper bastilles ".

To the northwest of the city is the so-called Temple of Janus, only two walls ( faces ) of which remain.

BC ) belong defensive walls, the so-called small gate, sanctuaries and cultic buildings ( temples, altars sacrificial platforms ), and the remains of a foundry for casting bronze statues.

The so-called " Old Town " is Ostuni's citadel built on top of a hill and still fortified by the ancient walls.

From the Gate of Adrianople to the Blachernae, the walls fall to a level of some 60 m. From there the later walls of Blachernae project sharply to the west, reaching the coastal plain at the Golden Horn near the so-called Prisons of Anemas.

Traces of the quarter's walls have been preserved, running from the area of the Porphyrogenitus Palace in straight line to the so-called Prison of Anemas.

Another, short wall was added in later times, probably in the reign of Theophilos, stretching from the junction of the land and sea walls to the sea itself, and pierced by the so-called Wooden Gate ( Ξυλίνη πύλη, Xylinē pylē, or Ξυλόπορτα, Xyloporta ).

At the same time the youngest Scouts were involved in so-called small sabotage under the auspice of the Wawer organization, which included dropping leaflets or painting the kotwica sign on the walls.

The boil-off rate is minimised by shielding the bath with either cold helium vapour, or vacuum shield with walls constructed from so-called super insulator material.

The so-called Gigantomachy frieze on the outside walls of the Pergamon altar avoids to a great extent any direct references to contemporary military campaigns — except for the " Star of Macedonia " on the round shield of one of the giants on the eastern frieze, or a Celtic oblong shield in the hand of a god on the northern frieze.

With ever-increasing levels of overcrowding the so-called ' gangway passenger ' had become an important consideration, so the vestibule environment was improved with carpeted walls, better lighting, sealed gangways and carriage doors, and four flip-down seats per vestibule ( since removed ).

The so-called " bee space " had been incorporated by Berlepsch into his frame arrangement ( Bienen-Zeitung, May 1852 ) following Dzierżon's discovery that grooves added to inner walls remained free of propolis ( 1848 ).

Traditional painting was also done in albums, on walls, lacquer work, and in other media.

Duryodhana then participated in a plot by Shakuni involving an architect Purochana who built an inflammable house by incorporating lacquer, animal fat, hay and various other fuels into the walls, and set it on fire when the Pandavas were staying in it during a visit to participate in festive celebrations at Varnavata.

The interiors are decorated with crossbeams of lacquer and gold, and in shallow niches in the walls of paintings of important stupas all over the country.

The folds open at the rear of the horn cabinet structure, utilizing the room walls and floor as continuations of horn structure, thereby increasing the effective length and size of the horn and affording greater bass extension.

The features in the gardens include a Palladian bridge ( one of only 4 left in the world ), Gothic temple, gravel cabinet, Mrs Allen's Grotto, ice house, lodge and three pools with curtain walls plus a serpentine lake.

A bridge over the moat adjoins the gatehouse and is fortified with walls and guardrobes.

The section of the Theodosian Walls that adjoins the walls of Blachernae, with the Palace of Porphyrogenitus in the background, as they appear today in suburban Istanbul.

When the Jesuit Manuel de Almeida visited Fremona in 1624, he found that it had been improved with " seven or eight bastions with high curtain walls, two courtyards, one of which adjoins the houses, where a good stone tank has been made, and another were a beautiful church was now being built of stone and lime.

Then came their bathroom, and then a bedroom that, judging by the photographs on the walls, must belong to Mme Cestre.

Celtic manager Jock Stein sent Sean Fallon to see Dalglish and his parents at their home ; on hearing that Fallon was at the door, Dalglish rushed upstairs to remove the Rangers posters from his bedroom walls.

What posters are on their bedroom walls?

Tony arrives to see Maria, and in a fit of rage she throws her fists at him until he finally calms her down and they plan to run away together ; as the walls of Maria's bedroom disappear, they find themselves in a dreamlike world of peace (" Somewhere ").

Modern closets can be built into the walls of the house during construction so that they take up no apparent space in the bedroom, or they can be a large, free-standing piece of furniture designed for clothing storage, in which case they are often called a wardrobe or armoire.

Back at their home they remove all the Nazi and white power posters from their bedroom walls.

Kirchherr's bedroom, which was all in black, including the walls and furniture, was decorated especially for Voormann.

At Chatsworth, during 1707-8 Thornhill painted a number of walls and ceilings, the most notable being the continuous wall and ceiling painting of the Sabine room, then a lobby, but since used as a bedroom.

Chapman began to fantasize about having king-like power over a group of imaginary " little people " who lived in the walls of his bedroom.

On the ground floor, destined for the use of Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, worthy of note are the bedroom and the archduke ’ s office, which reproduce the cabin and the stern wardroom respectively of the frigate Novara, the war-ship used by Maximilian when he was Commander of the Navy to circumnavigate the world between 1857 and 1859 ; the library, whose walls are lined with bookshelves and the rooms of the Archduchess with their tapestry of light-blue silk.

The boys drink too much coffee, and end up wired, bouncing off the walls of Tweek's bedroom rather than writing their report.

As a girl, her bedroom walls were covered with images of Harding from local papers and magazine.

After they wash their eyelids and summon him back to the room once more, Ted arrives at a scene of mass chaos: the walls of the bedroom have been scribbled with lipstick, Juancho has a cigarette in his mouth, Sarah has the bottle of champagne in her hand, the television is set to an adult channel, and the children have found the corpse of a dead prostitute ( Patricia Vonne ) stuffed under the mattress.

This is a celebration of the much loved and most wanted popstars that adorned bedroom walls across the country and truly were Top of the Pops.

When Helen leaves on a holiday to Italy with her married boyfriend, Michael ( Ian Hendry ), Carol appears distracted at work, refuses to leave her apartment, leaves a raw, skinned rabbit out to rot, and sees hallucinations, first of the walls cracking, then hands reaching out to grab and attack her, and repeated nightmares or hallucinations of a man breaking into her bedroom and raping her.

He was introduced to genre fiction and in particular science fiction from an early age, as his father had a collection of science fiction books which lined the walls of Dann's bedroom and he recalls " gazing at the colorful covers before I could read.

Although he survives, his mind is damaged due to the oxygen deprivation, and he spends the rest of his life locked in his room ( which later became Barney's bedroom ), scratching patterns into the wooden walls and clinging to the strange trinket he had taken from the murdered man's corpse.

That night Barney begins to see a pattern in the marks the Captain's brother had sawed in the walls of his bedroom: all the scratches centered on a particular rock on a nearby island.

The brightly coloured walls of the prison and Geum-ja's bedroom are replaced with the grey walls of the school.

He once described Canada and France as " lesser countries ," and was upset to find that his daughter Laurie's room had posters of " foreign cars " on her bedroom walls after Hyde moved into it, and generally refers to the rest of the world as " Not America.

Housemate Nichola later used magazines to make art on the walls in various rooms of the house, including a musical note in the girls ' bedroom and a hand next to the Diary Room door.