Drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier: recent advances in the use of nanocarriers

JJE Mulvihill, EM Cunnane, AM Ross, JT Duskey… - …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) has a significant contribution to homeostasis and protection
of the CNS. However, it also limits the crossing of therapeutics and thereby complicates the …

[HTML][HTML] Agents for fluorescence-guided glioma surgery: a systematic review of preclinical and clinical results

JT Senders, IS Muskens, R Schnoor, AV Karhade… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
Background Fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) is a technique used to enhance
visualization of tumor margins in order to increase the extent of tumor resection in glioma …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotheranostics: emerging strategies for early diagnosis and therapy of brain cancer

MK Viswanadh, RP Singh, P Agrawal… - …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nanotheranostics have demonstrated the development of advanced platforms that can
diagnose brain cancer at early stages, initiate first-line therapy, monitor it, and if needed …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogel-based drug delivery nanosystems for the treatment of brain tumors

J Basso, A Miranda, S Nunes, T Cova, J Sousa… - Gels, 2018 - mdpi.com
Chemotherapy is commonly associated with limited effectiveness and unwanted side effects
in normal cells and tissues, due to the lack of specificity of therapeutic agents to cancer cells …

Intraoperative fluorescence-guided resection of high-grade gliomas: a comparison of the present techniques and evolution of future strategies

Y Li, R Rey-Dios, DW Roberts, PA Valdés… - World neurosurgery, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective Fluorescence guidance has a demonstrated potential in maximizing the extent of
high-grade glioma resection. Different fluorophores (fluorescent biomarkers), including 5 …

[HTML][HTML] Intraoperative fluorescence imaging for personalized brain tumor resection: current state and future directions

E Belykh, NL Martirosyan, K Yagmurlu, EJ Miller… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Fluorescence-guided surgery is one of the rapidly emerging methods of surgical
“theranostics.” In this review, we summarize current fluorescence techniques used in …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo quantitative imaging of tumor pH by nanosonophore assisted multispectral photoacoustic imaging

J Jo, CH Lee, R Kopelman, X Wang - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Changes of physiological pH are correlated with several pathologies, therefore the
development of more effective medical pH imaging methods is of paramount importance …

Cell surface nucleolin as a target for anti-cancer therapies

M Koutsioumpa, E Papadimitriou - Recent patents on anti …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
A large number of mostly recent reports show enhanced expression of the multi-functional
protein nucleolin (NCL) on the surface of activated lymphocytes, angiogenic endothelial and …

Review of neurosurgical fluorescence imaging methodologies

BW Pogue, SL Gibbs-Strauss… - IEEE Journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fluorescence imaging in neurosurgery has a long historical development, with various
biomarkers and biochemical agents being used, and numerous technological approaches …

Nanoparticles with targeting, triggered release, and imaging functionality for cancer applications

K Loomis, K McNeeley, RV Bellamkonda - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The tendency for nanoparticles to accumulate in tumor regions as a result of the enhanced
permeability and retention effect has proven to be an advantageous feature for delivery of …