Overcoming the blood–brain barrier: the role of nanomaterials in treating neurological diseases

D Furtado, M Björnmalm, S Ayton, AI Bush… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Therapies directed toward the central nervous system remain difficult to translate into
improved clinical outcomes. This is largely due to the blood–brain barrier (BBB), arguably …

Applications of focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening

CM Gorick, VR Breza, KM Nowak, VWT Cheng… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The blood brain barrier (BBB) plays a critically important role in the regulation of central
nervous system (CNS) homeostasis, but also represents a major limitation to treatments of …

Three decades of ultrasound contrast agents: a review of the past, present and future improvements

P Frinking, T Segers, Y Luan, F Tranquart - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Initial reports from the 1960s describing the observations of ultrasound contrast
enhancement by tiny gaseous bubbles during echocardiographic examinations prompted …

Characterization of the responses of brain macrophages to focused ultrasound-mediated blood–brain barrier opening

AR Kline-Schoder, S Chintamen, MJ Willner… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
The opening of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) by focused ultrasound (FUS) coupled with
intravenously injected microbubbles can be leveraged as a form of immunotherapy for the …

Ultrasonic neuromodulation

O Naor, S Krupa, S Shoham - Journal of neural engineering, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasonic waves can be non-invasively steered and focused into mm-scale regions across
the human body and brain, and their application in generating controlled artificial …

Non-invasive transcranial brain modulation for neurological disorders treatment: a narrative review

EA Mosilhy, EE Alshial, MM Eltaras, MMA Rahman… - Life Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Noninvasive brain stimulation/modulation is a rapidly emerging technique that has been
implemented in different clinical applications. The commonly noninvasive techniques used …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art of microbubble-assisted blood-brain barrier disruption

KH Song, BK Harvey, MA Borden - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Focused ultrasound with microbubbles promises unprecedented advantages for blood-brain
barrier disruption over existing intracranial drug delivery methods, as well as a significant …

The size of blood–brain barrier opening induced by focused ultrasound is dictated by the acoustic pressure

H Chen, EE Konofagou - Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Focused ultrasound (FUS) in combination with microbubbles (MBs) has been successfully
used in the delivery of various-size therapeutic agents across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) …

Hydrophones, fundamental features, design considerations, and various structures: A review

H Saheban, Z Kordrostami - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review of hydrophones, their design considerations,
physical aspects, and structures by reviewing many publications that have been published …

Triculture model of in vitro BBB and its application to study BBB‐associated chemosensitivity and drug delivery in glioblastoma

S Seo, SY Nah, K Lee, N Choi… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Physiologically, brain tumors interact with surrounding vascular and glial cells, and change
their responses to survive in brain tissue‐specific microenvironments. A major difficulty in …