Neurodegenerative diseases and effective drug delivery: A review of challenges and novel therapeutics

A Akhtar, A Andleeb, TS Waris, M Bazzar… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
The central nervous system (CNS) encompasses the brain and spinal cord and is
considered the processing center and the most vital part of human body. The central …

SLC and ABC transporters: expression, localization, and species differences at the blood-brain and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers

ME Morris, V Rodriguez-Cruz, MA Felmlee - The AAPS journal, 2017 - Springer
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB) separate
the brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the systemic circulation and represent a barrier …

SARS-CoV-2: is there neuroinvasion?

C McQuaid, M Brady, R Deane - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background SARS-CoV-2, a coronavirus (CoV), is known to cause acute respiratory
distress syndrome, and a number of non-respiratory complications, particularly in older male …

Klotho overexpression improves amyloid‐β clearance and cognition in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Y Zhao, CY Zeng, XH Li, TT Yang, X Kuang, JR Du - Aging Cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent type of dementia, characterized by the
presence of amyloid‐β (Aβ) plaques. We previously reported that Klotho lowered Aβ levels …

SARS-CoV-2 infects epithelial cells of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier rather than endothelial cells or pericytes of the blood-brain barrier

C Stüdle, H Nishihara, S Wischnewski… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2023 - Springer
Background As a consequence of SARS-CoV-2 infection various neurocognitive and
neuropsychiatric symptoms can appear, which may persist for several months post infection …

Zika virus infects pericytes in the choroid plexus and enters the central nervous system through the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier

J Kim, B Alejandro, M Hetman, EM Hattab… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) can infect and cause microcephaly and Zika-associated neurological
complications in the developing fetal and adult brains. In terms of pathogenesis, a critical …

Human CD4+ T cell subsets differ in their abilities to cross endothelial and epithelial brain barriers in vitro

H Nishihara, S Soldati, A Mossu, M Rosito… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2020 - Springer
Background The brain barriers establish compartments in the central nervous system (CNS)
that significantly differ in their communication with the peripheral immune system. In this …

The choroid plexus is permissive for a preactivated antigen-experienced memory B-cell subset in multiple sclerosis

J Haas, H Rudolph, L Costa, S Faller… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The role of B cells in multiple sclerosis (MS) is increasingly recognized. B cells undergo
compartmentalized redistribution in blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) during active MS …

Folate receptor α-modified nanoparticles for targeting of the central nervous system

N Kuplennik, K Lang, R Steinfeld… - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Effective and timely delivery of therapeutic agents from the systemic circulation to the central
nervous system (CNS) is often precluded by the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and the blood …

In vitro models of the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier and their applications in the development and research of (Neuro) Pharmaceuticals

F Dabbagh, H Schroten, C Schwerk - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The pharmaceutical research sector has been facing the challenge of neurotherapeutics
development and its inherited high-risk and high-failure-rate nature for decades. This hurdle …