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 …

Age-associated physiological and pathological changes at the blood–brain barrier: A review

F Erdő, L Denes, E de Lange - Journal of Cerebral Blood …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The age-associated decline of the neurological and cognitive functions becomes more and
more serious challenge for the developed countries with the increasing number of aged …

[HTML][HTML] Single-nucleus multiregion transcriptomic analysis of brain vasculature in Alzheimer's disease

N Sun, LA Akay, MH Murdock, Y Park… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cerebrovascular dysregulation is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the changes
that occur in specific cell types have not been fully characterized. Here, we profile single …

The neurovascular unit dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

LO Soto-Rojas, M Pacheco-Herrero… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide.
Histopathologically, AD presents with two hallmarks: neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), and …

The Pericyte: A Forgotten Cell Type with Important Implications for A lzheimer's Disease?

EA Winkler, AP Sagare, BV Zlokovic - Brain pathology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Pericytes are cells in the blood–brain barrier (BBB) that degenerate in A lzheimer's disease
(AD), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by early neurovascular dysfunction …

Transporters at CNS barrier sites: obstacles or opportunities for drug delivery?

L Sanchez-Covarrubias, LM Slosky… - Current …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood-cerebrospinal fluid (BCSF) barriers are critical
determinants of CNS homeostasis. Additionally, the BBB and BCSF barriers are formidable …

Oxidized cholesterol as the driving force behind the development of Alzheimer's disease

P Gamba, G Testa, S Gargiulo, E Staurenghi… - Frontiers in aging …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disorder associated with
dementia, is typified by the pathological accumulation of amyloid Aβ peptides and …

Role of ABCA7 in Human Health and in Alzheimer's Disease

S Dib, J Pahnke, F Gosselet - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Several studies, including genome wide association studies (GWAS), have strongly
suggested a central role for the ATP-binding cassette transporter subfamily A member 7 …

Blood-brain barrier integrity in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

Z Huang, LW Wong, Y Su, X Huang, N Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) tightly controls the molecular exchange between the brain
parenchyma and blood. Accumulated evidence from transgenic animal Alzheimer's disease …

Cholesterol homeostasis: Researching a dialogue between the brain and peripheral tissues

M Gliozzi, V Musolino, F Bosco, M Scicchitano… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cholesterol homeostasis is a highly regulated process in human body because of its several
functions underlying the biology of cell membranes, the synthesis of all steroid hormones …