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 …

Brain‐targeting drug delivery systems

P Liu, C Jiang - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Brain diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases, acute ischemic stroke and brain
tumors, have become a major health problem and a huge burden on society with high …

[HTML][HTML] Sonobiopsy for minimally invasive, spatiotemporally-controlled, and sensitive detection of glioblastoma-derived circulating tumor DNA

CP Pacia, J Yuan, Y Yue, L Xu, A Nazeri, R Desai… - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Though surgical biopsies provide direct access to tissue for genomic characterization of
brain cancer, they are invasive and pose significant clinical risks. Brain cancer management …

First-in-human prospective trial of sonobiopsy in high-grade glioma patients using neuronavigation-guided focused ultrasound

J Yuan, L Xu, CY Chien, Y Yang, Y Yue… - NPJ Precision …, 2023 - nature.com
Sonobiopsy is an emerging technology that combines focused ultrasound (FUS) with
microbubbles to enrich circulating brain disease-specific biomarkers for noninvasive …

Focused ultrasound–mediated liquid biopsy in a tauopathy mouse model

CP Pacia, J Yuan, Y Yue, EC Leuthardt, TLS Benzinger… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Neurodegenerative disorders (such as Alzheimer disease) characterized by the
deposition of various pathogenic forms of tau protein in the brain are collectively referred to …

The road ahead to successful BBB opening and drug-delivery with focused ultrasound

M López-Aguirre, M Castillo-Ortiz… - Journal of Controlled …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review delves into the innovative technology of Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) opening with
low-intensity focused ultrasound in combination with microbubbles (LIFU-MB), a promising …

An affordable and easy-to-use focused ultrasound device for noninvasive and high precision drug delivery to the mouse brain

Z Hu, S Chen, Y Yang, Y Gong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Focused ultrasound (FUS) combined with microbubble-mediated blood-brain
barrier (BBB) opening (FUS-BBBO) is not only a promising technique for clinical applications …

The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Alzheimer's Disease: from Mechanism to Biomaterials Therapy

Z Yu, F Luo - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic, insidious, and progressive neuro‐degenerative
disease that remains a clinical challenge for society. The fully approved drug lecanemab …

Small volume blood-brain barrier opening in macaques with a 1 MHz ultrasound phased array

TJ Manuel, MK Sigona, MA Phipps, J Kusunose… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) has the potential to
deliver drugs to specific regions of the brain. The size of the BBB opening and ability to …

[HTML][HTML] Translating ultrasound-mediated drug delivery technologies for CNS applications

E Perolina, S Meissner, B Raos, B Harland… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultrasound enhances drug delivery into the central nervous system (CNS) by opening
barriers between the blood and CNS and by triggering release of drugs from carriers. A key …