Strategies for delivering therapeutics across the blood–brain barrier

GC Terstappen, AH Meyer, RD Bell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Achieving sufficient delivery across the blood–brain barrier is a key challenge in the
development of drugs to treat central nervous system (CNS) disorders. This is particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Manufacturing challenges and rational formulation development for AAV viral vectors

A Srivastava, KMG Mallela, N Deorkar… - Journal of pharmaceutical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as a leading platform for gene delivery for
treating various diseases due to its excellent safety profile and efficient transduction to …

SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier accompanied with basement membrane disruption without tight junctions alteration

L Zhang, L Zhou, L Bao, J Liu, H Zhu, Q Lv… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to show a capacity for invading the brains of humans and
model animals. However, it remains unclear whether and how SARS-CoV-2 crosses the …

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) as a vector for gene therapy

MF Naso, B Tomkowicz, WL Perry III, WR Strohl - BioDrugs, 2017 - Springer
There has been a resurgence in gene therapy efforts that is partly fueled by the identification
and understanding of new gene delivery vectors. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a non …

Variants of the adeno-associated virus serotype 9 with enhanced penetration of the blood–brain barrier in rodents and primates

Y Yao, J Wang, Y Liu, Y Qu, K Wang, Y Zhang… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of gene therapies for the treatment of diseases of the central nervous
system has been hindered by the limited availability of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) that …

[HTML][HTML] The GPI-linked protein LY6A drives AAV-PHP. B transport across the blood-brain barrier

J Hordeaux, Y Yuan, PM Clark, Q Wang, RA Martino… - Molecular Therapy, 2019 - cell.com
Efficient delivery of gene therapy vectors across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the holy
grail of neurological disease therapies. A variant of the neurotropic vector adeno-associated …

Overcoming the blood–brain barrier. challenges and tricks for CNS drug delivery

LA Bors, F Erdő - Scientia Pharmaceutica, 2019 - mdpi.com
Treatment of certain central nervous system disorders, including different types of cerebral
malignancies, is limited by traditional oral or systemic administrations of therapeutic drugs …

Fantastic AAV gene therapy vectors and how to find them—random diversification, rational design and machine learning

J Becker, J Fakhiri, D Grimm - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Parvoviruses are a diverse family of small, non-enveloped DNA viruses that infect a wide
variety of species, tissues and cell types. For over half a century, their intriguing biology and …

Blood–brain barrier: emerging trends on transport models and new-age strategies for therapeutics intervention against neurological disorders

HK Alajangi, M Kaur, A Sharma, S Rana, S Thakur… - Molecular Brain, 2022 - Springer
The integrity of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) is essential for normal central nervous system
(CNS) functioning. Considering the significance of BBB in maintaining homeostasis and the …

Viral vectors for neural circuit mapping and recent advances in trans-synaptic anterograde tracers

X Xu, TC Holmes, MH Luo, KT Beier, GD Horwitz… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Viral tracers are important tools for neuroanatomical mapping and genetic payload delivery.
Genetically modified viruses allow for cell-type-specific targeting and overcome many …