[HTML][HTML] Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for brain imaging and drug delivery

R Qiao, C Fu, H Forgham, I Javed, X Huang… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Central nervous system (CNS) disorders affect as many as 1.5 billion people globally. The
limited delivery of most imaging and therapeutic agents into the brain is a major challenge …

Multifunctional nanotheranostics for near infrared optical imaging-guided treatment of brain tumors

L Zhang, Y Liu, H Huang, H Xie, B Zhang, W Xia… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Malignant brain tumors, a heterogeneous group of primary and metastatic neoplasms in the
central nervous system (CNS), are notorious for their highly invasive and devastating …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound blood–brain barrier opening and aducanumab in Alzheimer's disease

AR Rezai, PF D'Haese, V Finomore… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Antiamyloid antibodies have been used to reduce cerebral amyloid-beta (Aβ) load in
patients with Alzheimer's disease. We applied focused ultrasound with each of six monthly …

Chiral metal-organic frameworks incorporating nanozymes as neuroinflammation inhibitors for managing Parkinson's disease

W Jiang, Q Li, R Zhang, J Li, Q Lin, J Li, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nanomedicine-based anti-neuroinflammation strategy has become a promising dawn of
Parkinson's disease (PD) treatment. However, there are significant gaps in our …

Bacteria loaded with glucose polymer and photosensitive ICG silicon-nanoparticles for glioblastoma photothermal immunotherapy

R Sun, M Liu, J Lu, B Chu, Y Yang, B Song… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bacteria can bypass the blood-brain barrier (BBB), suggesting the possibility of employment
of bacteria for combating central nervous system diseases. Herein, we develop a bacteria …

Repeated blood–brain barrier opening with an implantable ultrasound device for delivery of albumin-bound paclitaxel in patients with recurrent glioblastoma: a phase …

AM Sonabend, A Gould, C Amidei, R Ward… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound with concomitant administration of intravenous
microbubbles (LIPU-MB) can be used to open the blood–brain barrier. We aimed to assess …

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 …

Ultrasound-mediated blood–brain barrier opening: An effective drug delivery system for theranostics of brain diseases

J Wang, Z Li, M Pan, M Fiaz, Y Hao, Y Yan… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Blood-brain barrier (BBB) remains a significant obstacle to drug therapy for brain diseases.
Focused ultrasound (FUS) combined with microbubbles (MBs) can locally and transiently …

Highly piezoelectric, biodegradable, and flexible amino acid nanofibers for medical applications

MT Chorsi, TT Le, F Lin, T Vinikoor, R Das… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Amino acid crystals are an attractive piezoelectric material as they have an ultrahigh
piezoelectric coefficient and have an appealing safety profile for medical implant …

BBB opening with focused ultrasound in nonhuman primates and Parkinson's disease patients: Targeted AAV vector delivery and PET imaging

J Blesa, JA Pineda-Pardo, K Inoue, C Gasca-Salas… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Intracerebral vector delivery in nonhuman primates has been a major challenge. We report
successful blood-brain barrier opening and focal delivery of adeno-associated virus …