[HTML][HTML] Blood-brain barrier opening with focused ultrasound in Parkinson's disease dementia

C Gasca-Salas, B Fernández-Rodríguez… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), in combination with intravenous microbubble
administration, has been applied for focal temporary BBB opening in patients with …

Focused ultrasound–mediated blood-brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease: long-term safety, imaging, and cognitive outcomes

AR Rezai, M Ranjan, MW Haut, J Carpenter… - Journal of …, 2022 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE MRI-guided low-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) has been shown to
reversibly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB), with the potential to deliver therapeutic agents …

Resting state functional connectivity changes after MR-guided focused ultrasound mediated blood-brain barrier opening in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Y Meng, BJ MacIntosh, Z Shirzadi, A Kiss, A Bethune… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) can temporarily permeabilize the blood-brain
barrier (BBB), noninvasively, to allow therapeutics access to the central nervous system …

Blood–brain barrier opening of the default mode network in Alzheimer's disease with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound

Y Meng, M Goubran, JS Rabin, M McSweeney, J Ottoy… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain but is also an important obstacle for the
effective delivery of therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative …

Noninvasive hippocampal blood− brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease with focused ultrasound

AR Rezai, M Ranjan, PF D'Haese… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) presents a significant challenge for treating brain disorders.
The hippocampus is a key target for novel therapeutics, playing an important role in …

Striatal blood–brain barrier opening in Parkinson's disease dementia: a pilot exploratory study

JA Pineda‐Pardo, C Gasca‐Salas… - Movement …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Parkinson's disease (PD) exhibits a high prevalence of dementia as disease
severity and duration progress. Focused ultrasound (FUS) has been applied for transient …

[HTML][HTML] Extensive frontal focused ultrasound mediated blood–brain barrier opening for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: A proof-of-concept study

SH Park, K Baik, S Jeon, WS Chang, BS Ye… - Translational …, 2021 - Springer
Background Focused ultrasound (FUS)-mediated blood–brain barrier (BBB) opening has
shown efficacy in removal of amyloid plaque and improvement of cognitive functions in …

Ultrasound-mediated blood–brain barrier opening: An effective drug delivery system for theranostics of brain diseases

J Wang, Z Li, M Pan, M Fiaz, Y Hao, Y Yan… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Blood-brain barrier (BBB) remains a significant obstacle to drug therapy for brain diseases.
Focused ultrasound (FUS) combined with microbubbles (MBs) can locally and transiently …

Blood-brain barrier opening with MRI-guided focused ultrasound elicits meningeal venous permeability in humans with early Alzheimer disease

RI Mehta, JS Carpenter, RI Mehta, MW Haut, M Ranjan… - Radiology, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) induced with MRI-guided focused
ultrasound has been shown in experimental animal models to reduce amyloid-β plaque …

[HTML][HTML] First-in-human trial of blood–brain barrier opening in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using MR-guided focused ultrasound

A Abrahao, Y Meng, M Llinas, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is an emerging technology that can accurately
and transiently permeabilize the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for targeted drug delivery to the …