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 …

[HTML][HTML] From concept to early clinical trials: 30 years of microbubble-based ultrasound-mediated drug delivery research

A Bouakaz, JM Escoffre - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultrasound mediated drug delivery, a promising therapeutic modality, has evolved
remarkably over the past three decades. Initially designed to enhance contrast in ultrasound …

Focused ultrasound/microbubbles-assisted BBB opening enhances LNP-mediated mRNA delivery to brain

K Ogawa, N Kato, M Yoshida, T Hiu, T Matsuo… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Messenger RNA (mRNA) medicine has become a new therapeutic approach owing to the
progress in mRNA delivery technology, especially with lipid nanoparticles (LNP). However …

Cavitation-modulated inflammatory response following focused ultrasound blood-brain barrier opening

R Ji, ME Karakatsani, M Burgess, M Smith… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Focused ultrasound (FUS) in combination with systemically injected microbubbles can be
used to non-invasively open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in targeted regions for a variety of …

Efficient blood-brain barrier opening in primates with neuronavigation-guided ultrasound and real-time acoustic mapping

SY Wu, C Aurup, CS Sanchez, J Grondin, W Zheng… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Brain diseases including neurological disorders and tumors remain under treated due to the
challenge to access the brain, and blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricting drug delivery which …

[HTML][HTML] Long-lasting restoration of memory function and hippocampal synaptic plasticity by focused ultrasound in Alzheimer's disease

C Kong, JW Ahn, S Kim, JY Park, YC Na, JW Chang… - Brain Stimulation, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Focused ultrasound (FUS) is a medical technology that non-invasively
stimulates the brain and has been applied in thermal ablation, blood–brain barrier (BBB) …

Focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier opening improves adult hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive function in a cholinergic degeneration dementia rat …

J Shin, C Kong, J Lee, BY Choi, J Sim, CS Koh… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2019 - Springer
Background The persistence of adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN) is sharply
decreased in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The neuropathologies of AD include the presence of …

Secondary effects on brain physiology caused by focused ultrasound-mediated disruption of the blood–brain barrier

N Todd, C Angolano, C Ferran, A Devor… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Focused ultrasound (FUS) combined with microbubbles is a non-invasive method for
targeted, reversible disruption of the blood–brain barrier (FUS-BBB opening). This approach …

Recent advances on ultrasound contrast agents for blood-brain barrier opening with focused ultrasound

A Dauba, A Delalande, HAS Kamimura, A Conti… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The blood-brain barrier is the primary obstacle to efficient intracerebral drug delivery.
Focused ultrasound, in conjunction with microbubbles, is a targeted and non-invasive way to …

The new insight into the inflammatory response following focused ultrasound-mediated blood–brain barrier disruption

HJ Choi, M Han, H Seo, CY Park, EH Lee… - Fluids and Barriers of the …, 2022 - Springer
Background Despite the great potential of FUS-BBB disruption (FUS-BBBD), it is still
controversial whether FUS-BBBD acts as an inducing factor of neuro-inflammation or not …