[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticles for targeted brain drug delivery: what do we know?

RGR Pinheiro, AJ Coutinho, M Pinheiro… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a barrier that separates the blood from the brain tissue and
possesses unique characteristics that make the delivery of drugs to the brain a great …

Emerging blood–brain-barrier-crossing nanotechnology for brain cancer theranostics

W Tang, W Fan, J Lau, L Deng, Z Shen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Brain cancer, especially the most common type of glioblastoma, is highly invasive and
known as one of the most devastating and deadly neoplasms. Despite surgical and medical …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of blood–brain barrier in brain diseases and related systemic nanoscale brain-targeting drug delivery strategies

L Han, C Jiang - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
Blood–brain barrier (BBB) strictly controls matter exchange between blood and brain, and
severely limits brain penetration of systemically administered drugs, resulting in ineffective …

[HTML][HTML] Surface-modified lipid nanocarriers for crossing the blood-brain barrier (BBB): A current overview of active targeting in brain diseases

MI Teixeira, CM Lopes, MH Amaral, PC Costa - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts the access of therapeutic agents to the brain,
complicating the treatment of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Small molecules as cancer targeting ligands: Shifting the paradigm

N Kaur, P Popli, N Tiwary, R Swami - Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 - Elsevier
Conventional chemotherapeutics exploration is hampered due to their nonspecific
distribution leading to unintended serious toxicity. Toxicity is so severe that deciding to go for …

Targeting nucleic acid-based therapeutics to tumors: Challenges and strategies for polyplexes

VC Vetter, E Wagner - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
The current medical reality of cancer gene therapy is reflected by more than ten approved
products on the global market, including oncolytic and other viral vectors and CAR T-cells as …

Inhalable solid lipid nanoparticles for intracellular tuberculosis infection therapy: macrophage-targeting and pH-sensitive properties

C Ma, M Wu, W Ye, Z Huang, X Ma, W Wang… - Drug Delivery and …, 2021 - Springer
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is one of the most threatening pathogens for its latent
infection in macrophages. The intracellular MTB isolated itself from drugs and could spread …

[HTML][HTML] Design and development of nanomaterial-based drug carriers to overcome the blood–brain barrier by using different transport mechanisms

J Song, C Lu, J Leszek, J Zhang - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Central nervous system (CNS) diseases are the leading causes of death and disabilities in
the world. It is quite challenging to treat CNS diseases efficiently because of the blood–brain …

[HTML][HTML] Glycosylated nanoparticles for cancer-targeted drug delivery

SA Torres-Pérez, CE Torres-Pérez… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Nanoparticles (NPs) are novel platforms that can carry both cancer-targeting molecules and
drugs to avoid severe side effects due to nonspecific drug delivery in standard …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal targeting of glioma with functionalized nanoparticles

HE Marei - Cancer Cell International, 2022 - Springer
The most common and aggressive primitive intracranial tumor of the central nervous system
is the glioma. The blood–brain barrier (BBB) has proven to be a significant obstacle to the …