A historical review of brain drug delivery

WM Pardridge - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of brain drug delivery is reviewed beginning with the first demonstration, in 1914,
that a drug for syphilis, salvarsan, did not enter the brain, due to the presence of a blood …

Towards improvements for penetrating the blood–brain barrier—recent progress from a material and pharmaceutical perspective

Q He, J Liu, J Liang, X Liu, W Li, Z Liu, Z Ding, D Tuo - Cells, 2018 - mdpi.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a critical biological structure that prevents damage to the
brain and maintains its bathing microenvironment. However, this barrier is also the obstacle …

Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization and functionalization for biomedical applications in the central nervous system

SAMK Ansari, E Ficiarà, FA Ruffinatti, I Stura… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Magnetic Nanoparticles (MNPs) are of great interest in biomedicine, due to their wide range
of applications. During recent years, one of the most challenging goals is the development of …

The landscape of biomimetic nanovesicles in brain diseases

Q You, F Liang, G Wu, F Cao, J Liu, Z He… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Brain diseases, such as brain tumors, neurodegenerative diseases, cerebrovascular
diseases, and brain injuries, are caused by various pathophysiological changes, which pose …

An overview of nanotechnologies for drug delivery to the brain

A Ayub, S Wettig - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drug delivery to the brain has been one of the toughest challenges researchers have faced
to develop effective treatments for brain diseases. Owing to the blood–brain barrier (BBB) …

Transport of ultrasmall gold nanoparticles (2 nm) across the blood–brain barrier in a six-cell brain spheroid model

V Sokolova, G Mekky, SB van der Meer, MC Seeds… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is an efficient barrier for molecules and drugs. Multicellular
3D spheroids display reproducible BBB features and functions. The spheroids used here …

Recent development of contrast agents for magnetic resonance and multimodal imaging of glioblastoma

D Zhuang, H Zhang, G Hu, B Guo - Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2022 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) as the most common primary malignant brain tumor exhibits a high
incidence and degree of malignancy as well as poor prognosis. Due to the existence of …

Multiferroic ABO3 Transition Metal Oxides: a Rare Interaction of Ferroelectricity and Magnetism

IH Lone, J Aslam, NRE Radwan, AH Bashal… - Nanoscale research …, 2019 - Springer
This review article summarizes the development of different kinds of materials that evolved
interest in all field of science particularly on new nano-materials which possess both electric …

Magnetic nanoparticles used in oncology

V Manescu, G Paltanea, I Antoniac, M Vasilescu - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have more and more often been used in
experimental studies on cancer treatments, which have become one of the biggest …

Neuro-nanotechnology: diagnostic and therapeutic nano-based strategies in applied neuroscience

L Shabani, M Abbasi, Z Azarnew, AM Amani… - Biomedical engineering …, 2023 - Springer
Artificial, de-novo manufactured materials (with controlled nano-sized characteristics) have
been progressively used by neuroscientists during the last several decades. The …