The immune and nervous systems have unique developmental trajectories that individually
build intricate networks of cells with highly specialized functions. These two systems have …

Apart from its clinical use in imaging, ultrasound has been thoroughly investigated as a tool
to enhance drug delivery in a wide variety of applications. Therapeutic ultrasound, as such …

MRI-guided pulsed focused ultrasound (pFUS) combined with systemic infusion of
ultrasound contrast agent microbubbles (MB) causes localized blood–brain barrier (BBB) …

Inflammation is a physiological process that repairs tissues in response to endogenous or
exogenous aggressions. Nevertheless, a chronic state of inflammation may have detrimental …

The immune response after stroke is known to play a major role in ischemic brain
pathobiology. The inflammatory signals released by immune mediators activated by brain …

This review is directed at understanding how neuronal death occurs in two distinct insults,
global ischemia and focal ischemia. These are the two principal rodent models for human …

Recent scientific studies have advanced the notion of chronic inflammation as a major risk
factor underlying aging and age-related diseases. In this review, low-grade, unresolved …

The highly disagreeable sensation of pain results from an extraordinarily complex and
interactive series of mechanisms integrated at all levels of the neuroaxis, from the periphery …

Superparamagnetic iron oxide particles (SPIO and USPIO) have a variety of applications in
molecular and cellular imaging. Most of the recent research has concerned cellular imaging …

Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic lung disease characterized by excessive accumulation of
extracellular matrix (ECM) and remodeling of the lung architecture. Idiopathic pulmonary …