Current strategies to enhance delivery of drugs across the blood–brain barrier

RI Teleanu, MD Preda, AG Niculescu, O Vladâcenco… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) has shown to be a significant obstacle to brain medication
delivery. The BBB in a healthy brain is a diffusion barrier that prevents most substances from …

Breaking barriers: exploring mechanisms behind opening the blood–brain barrier

MEM Stamp, M Halwes, D Nisbet, DJ Collins - Fluids and Barriers of the …, 2023 - Springer
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a selectively permeable membrane that separates the
bloodstream from the brain. While useful for protecting neural tissue from harmful …

Cytoskeletal disruption after electroporation and its significance to pulsed electric field therapies

PM Graybill, RV Davalos - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pulsed electric fields (PEFs) have become clinically important through the success of
Irreversible Electroporation (IRE), Electrochemotherapy (ECT), and nanosecond PEFs …

Advances of electroporation-related therapies and the synergy with immunotherapy in cancer treatment

X Gong, Z Chen, JJ Hu, C Liu - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Electroporation is the process of instantaneously increasing the permeability of a cell
membrane under a pulsed electric field. Depending on the parameters of the electric pulses …

A microfluidic model of the blood–brain barrier to study permeabilization by pulsed electric fields

M Bonakdar, PM Graybill, RV Davalos - RSC advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Pulsed electric fields interact with the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and have been shown to
increase the BBB permeability under some pulsing regimes. Pulsed electric fields may …

Asymmetric waveforms decrease lethal thresholds in high frequency irreversible electroporation therapies

MB Sano, RE Fan, L Xing - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a promising non-thermal treatment for inoperable tumors
which uses short (50–100 μs) high voltage monopolar pulses to disrupt the membranes of …

BBB opening by low pulsed electric fields, depicted by delayed-contrast MRI, enables efficient delivery of therapeutic doxorubicin doses into mice brains

I Cooper, D Last, O Ravid, D Rand, E Matsree… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Pharmacological treatment of CNS diseases is limited due to the presence of
the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Recent years showed significant advancement in the field of …

Electroporation-based therapy for brain tumors: a review

Z Fang, L Chen, MAJ Moser… - Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Abstract Electroporation-based therapy (EBT), as a high-voltage-pulse technology has been
prevalent with favorable clinical outcomes in the treatment of various solid tumors. This …

Transient blood–brain barrier disruption is induced by low pulsed electrical fields in vitro: An analysis of permeability and trans-endothelial electric resistivity

S Sharabi, Y Bresler, O Ravid, C Shemesh… - Drug …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is limiting transcellular and paracellular movement of
molecules and cells, controls molecular traffic, and keeps out toxins. However, this protective …

Temporal characterization of blood–brain barrier disruption with high-frequency electroporation

MF Lorenzo, SC Thomas, Y Kani, J Hinckley, M Lee… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Treatment of intracranial disorders suffers from the inability to accumulate therapeutic drug
concentrations due to protection from the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Electroporation-based …