Highly sensitive Curcumin-conjugated nanotheranostic platform for detecting amyloid-beta plaques by magnetic resonance imaging and reversing cognitive deficits of …

Y Ruan, Y Xiong, W Fang, Q Yu, Y Mai, Z Cao… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder
without effective therapy and lack diagnosis strategy for preclinical AD patients. There is an …

Recent advances in drug delivery and targeting to the brain

B Sethi, V Kumar, K Mahato, DW Coulter… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our body keeps separating the toxic chemicals in the blood from the brain. A significant
number of drugs do not enter the central nervous system (CNS) due to the blood-brain …

Apolipoprotein E peptide-directed chimeric polymersomes mediate an ultrahigh-efficiency targeted protein therapy for glioblastoma

Y Jiang, J Zhang, F Meng, Z Zhong - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
The inability to cross the blood–brain barrier (BBB) prevents nearly all chemotherapeutics
and biotherapeutics from the effective treatment of brain tumors, rendering few …

Targeting the blood-brain barrier for the delivery of stroke therapies

A D'Souza, KM Dave, RA Stetler… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
A variety of neuroprotectants have shown promise in treating ischemic stroke, yet their
delivery to the brain remains a challenge. The endothelial cells lining the blood-brain barrier …

Recent trends in the development of hydrogel therapeutics for the treatment of central nervous system disorders

Q Li, X Shao, X Dai, Q Guo, B Yuan, Y Liu… - NPG Asia …, 2022 - nature.com
The central nervous system (CNS) controls the acquisition and processing of peripheral
information to manage the behaviors of organisms. CNS disorders, including CNS injuries …

BBB pathophysiology–independent delivery of siRNA in traumatic brain injury

W Li, J Qiu, XL Li, S Aday, J Zhang, G Conley, J Xu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Small interfering RNA (siRNA)–based therapeutics can mitigate the long-term sequelae of
traumatic brain injury (TBI) but suffer from poor permeability across the blood-brain barrier …

Nanoparticles as carriers for drug delivery of macromolecules across the blood-brain barrier

G Tosi, JT Duskey, J Kreuter - Expert opinion on drug delivery, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Current therapies of neurodegenerative or neurometabolic diseases are, to a
large extent, hampered by the inability of drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This …

Targeting nucleic acid-based therapeutics to tumors: Challenges and strategies for polyplexes

VC Vetter, E Wagner - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
The current medical reality of cancer gene therapy is reflected by more than ten approved
products on the global market, including oncolytic and other viral vectors and CAR T-cells as …

BBPpred: sequence-based prediction of blood-brain barrier peptides with feature representation learning and logistic regression

R Dai, W Zhang, W Tang, E Wynendaele… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Blood-brain barrier peptides (BBPs) have a large range of biomedical applications since
they can cross the blood-brain barrier based on different mechanisms. As experimental …

Rational design of functional peptide–gold hybrid nanomaterials for molecular interactions

X Liu, Q Zhang, W Knoll, B Liedberg… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been extensively used for decades in biosensing‐related
development due to outstanding optical properties. Peptides, as newly realized functional …