Development of polymeric nanoparticles for blood–brain barrier transfer—strategies and challenges

W Zhang, A Mehta, Z Tong, L Esser… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and brain cancers are difficult to
treat with current drugs as their delivery efficacy to the brain is severely hampered by the …

Nanomaterial-based blood-brain-barrier (BBB) crossing strategies

J Xie, Z Shen, Y Anraku, K Kataoka, X Chen - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing attention has been paid to the diseases of central nervous system (CNS). The
penetration efficiency of most CNS drugs into the brain parenchyma is rather limited due to …

3D self-organized microvascular model of the human blood-brain barrier with endothelial cells, pericytes and astrocytes

M Campisi, Y Shin, T Osaki, C Hajal, V Chiono… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) regulates molecular trafficking, protects against pathogens,
and prevents efficient drug delivery to the brain. Models to date failed to reproduce the …

Human iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier chips enable disease modeling and personalized medicine applications

GD Vatine, R Barrile, MJ Workman, S Sances… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) tightly regulates the entry of solutes from blood into the brain
and is disrupted in several neurological diseases. Using Organ-Chip technology, we created …

Microengineered human blood–brain barrier platform for understanding nanoparticle transport mechanisms

SI Ahn, YJ Sei, HJ Park, J Kim, Y Ryu, JJ Choi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Challenges in drug development of neurological diseases remain mainly ascribed to the
blood–brain barrier (BBB). Despite the valuable contribution of animal models to drug …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticle-mediated brain drug delivery: Overcoming blood–brain barrier to treat neurodegenerative diseases

C Saraiva, C Praça, R Ferreira, T Santos… - Journal of controlled …, 2016 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a vital boundary between neural tissue and circulating
blood. The BBB's unique and protective features control brain homeostasis as well as ion …

Microfluidic blood–brain barrier model provides in vivo‐like barrier properties for drug permeability screening

YI Wang, HE Abaci, ML Shuler - Biotechnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient delivery of therapeutics across the neuroprotective blood–brain barrier (BBB)
remains a formidable challenge for central nervous system drug development. High‐fidelity …

Organ‐on‐a‐chip platforms: a convergence of advanced materials, cells, and microscale technologies

S Ahadian, R Civitarese, D Bannerman… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Significant advances in biomaterials, stem cell biology, and microscale technologies have
enabled the fabrication of biologically relevant tissues and organs. Such tissues and organs …

Distinct contributions of astrocytes and pericytes to neuroinflammation identified in a 3D human blood-brain barrier on a chip

A Herland, AD van der Meer, EA FitzGerald, TE Park… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Neurovascular inflammation is a major contributor to many neurological disorders, but
modeling these processes in vitro has proven to be difficult. Here, we microengineered a …

3D neural tissue models: From spheroids to bioprinting

P Zhuang, AX Sun, J An, CK Chua, SY Chew - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro neural tissue models provide a better recapitulation
of in vivo cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions than conventional two …