[HTML][HTML] Targeting and crossing the blood-brain barrier with extracellular vesicles

J Saint-Pol, F Gosselet, S Duban-Deweer, G Pottiez… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is one of the most complex and selective barriers in the
human organism. Its role is to protect the brain and preserve the homeostasis of the central …

[HTML][HTML] Current strategies for brain drug delivery

X Dong - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been a great hurdle for brain drug delivery. The BBB in
healthy brain is a diffusion barrier essential for protecting normal brain function by impeding …

Exosomes—beyond stem cells for restorative therapy in stroke and neurological injury

ZG Zhang, B Buller, M Chopp - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and brain injuries devastate patients and
their families, but currently no drugs on the market promote neurological recovery. Limited …

Potential use of exosomes as diagnostic biomarkers and in targeted drug delivery: progress in clinical and preclinical applications

MN Huda, M Nafiujjaman, IG Deaguero… - ACS biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are cell-derived vesicles containing heterogeneous active biomolecules such as
proteins, lipids, mRNAs, receptors, immune regulatory molecules, and nucleic acids. They …

Biology and biogenesis of shed microvesicles

C Tricarico, J Clancy, C D'Souza-Schorey - Small GTPases, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The ability of cells to transmit bioactive molecules to recipient cells and the extracellular
environment is a fundamental requirement for both normal physiology and disease …

Ectosomes and exosomes: shedding the confusion between extracellular vesicles

E Cocucci, J Meldolesi - Trends in cell biology, 2015 - cell.com
Long-and short-distance communication can take multiple forms. Among them are
exosomes and ectosomes, extracellular vesicles (EVs) released from the cell to deliver …

Exosome Delivered Anticancer Drugs Across the Blood-Brain Barrier for Brain Cancer Therapy in Danio Rerio

T Yang, P Martin, B Fogarty, A Brown… - Pharmaceutical …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose The blood–brain barrier (BBB) essentially restricts therapeutic drugs from entering
into the brain. This study tests the hypothesis that brain endothelial cell derived exosomes …

Exosomes provide a protective and enriched source of miRNA for biomarker profiling compared to intracellular and cell-free blood

L Cheng, RA Sharples, BJ Scicluna… - Journal of extracellular …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction microRNA (miRNA) are small non-coding RNA species that are transcriptionally
processed in the host cell and released extracellularly into the bloodstream. Normally …

Extracellular vesicles in neurodegenerative disease—pathogenesis to biomarkers

AG Thompson, E Gray, SM Heman-Ackah… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
To develop effective disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, reliable
markers of diagnosis, disease activity and progression are a research priority. The fact that …

Identification of a novel mechanism of blood–brain communication during peripheral inflammation via choroid plexus‐derived extracellular vesicles

S Balusu, E Van Wonterghem, R De Rycke… - EMBO molecular …, 2016 - embopress.org
Here, we identified release of extracellular vesicles (EVs) by the choroid plexus epithelium
(CPE) as a new mechanism of blood–brain communication. Systemic inflammation induced …