Engineered nanomaterials that exploit blood-brain barrier dysfunction for delivery to the brain

JR Wu, Y Hernandez, KF Miyasaki, EJ Kwon - Advanced drug delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly regulated physical and functional boundary that
tightly controls the transport of materials between the blood and the brain. There is an …

New drug delivery systems developed for brain targeting

SU Rawal, BM Patel, MM Patel - Drugs, 2022 - Springer
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSF) are two of
the most complex and sophisticated concierges that defend the central nervous system …

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 …

Rapid impedance spectroscopy for monitoring tissue impedance, temperature, and treatment outcome during electroporation-based therapies

MF Lorenzo, SP Bhonsle, CB Arena… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Electroporation-based therapies (EBTs) employ high voltage pulsed electric fields
(PEFs) to permeabilize tumor tissue; this results in changes in electrical properties …

Multi-tissue analysis on the impact of electroporation on electrical and thermal properties

N Beitel-White, MF Lorenzo, Y Zhao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Tissue electroporation is achieved by applying a series of electric pulses to
destabilize cell membranes within the target tissue. The treatment volume is dictated by the …

Passing of Nanocarriers across the Histohematic Barriers: Current Approaches for Tumor Theranostics

K Gareev, R Tagaeva, D Bobkov, N Yudintceva… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Over the past several decades, nanocarriers have demonstrated diagnostic and therapeutic
(ie, theranostic) potencies in translational oncology, and some agents have been further …

An investigation for large volume, focal blood-brain barrier disruption with high-frequency pulsed electric fields

MF Lorenzo, SN Campelo, JP Arroyo, KN Aycock… - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
The treatment of CNS disorders suffers from the inability to deliver large therapeutic agents
to the brain parenchyma due to protection from the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Herein, we …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-targeted drug delivery assisted by physical techniques and its potential applications in traditional Chinese medicine

Y Sun, L Du, M Yang, Q Li, X Jia, Q Li, L Zhu… - Journal of Traditional …, 2021 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) constitutes a major obstacle to effective delivery of drugs to
the brain. Recent technological advances have led to improvements in brain-targeted drug …

Non-invasive low pulsed electrical fields for inducing BBB disruption in mice—feasibility demonstration

S Sharabi, D Last, D Daniels, ID Fabian, D Atrakchi… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a major hurdle for the treatment of central nervous system
disorders, limiting passage of both small and large therapeutic agents from the blood stream …

Cytoskeletal Remodeling and Gap Junction Translocation Mediates Blood–Brain Barrier Disruption by Non-invasive Low-Voltage Pulsed Electric Fields

NR Rajagopalan, WR Vista, M Fujimori… - Annals of biomedical …, 2024 - Springer
High-voltage pulsed electric fields (HV-PEF) delivered with invasive needle electrodes for
electroporation applications is known to induce off-target blood–brain barrier (BBB) …