The blood-brain barrier in aging and neurodegeneration

EG Knox, MR Aburto, G Clarke, JF Cryan… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is vital for maintaining brain homeostasis by enabling an
exquisite control of exchange of compounds between the blood and the brain parenchyma …

Hypoxia-enhanced Blood-Brain Barrier Chip recapitulates human barrier function and shuttling of drugs and antibodies

TE Park, N Mustafaoglu, A Herland… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The high selectivity of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts delivery of many
pharmaceuticals and therapeutic antibodies to the central nervous system. Here, we …

Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 clinical guidelines for the management of adults with major depressive disorder: section 3 …

SH Kennedy, RW Lam, RS McIntyre… - The Canadian …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT)
conducted a revision of the 2009 guidelines by updating the evidence and …

Blood-brain barrier regulation in psychiatric disorders

J Kealy, C Greene, M Campbell - Neuroscience letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a dynamic interface between the peripheral blood supply
and the cerebral parenchyma, controlling the transport of material to and from the brain …

Strategies for transporting nanoparticles across the blood–brain barrier

TT Zhang, W Li, G Meng, P Wang, W Liao - Biomaterials science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The existence of blood–brain barrier (BBB) hampers the effective treatment of central
nervous system (CNS) diseases. Almost all macromolecular drugs and more than 98% of …

Intranasal drug delivery: an efficient and non-invasive route for systemic administration: focus on opioids

S Grassin-Delyle, A Buenestado, E Naline… - Pharmacology & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Intranasal administration is a non-invasive route for drug delivery, which is widely used for
the local treatment of rhinitis or nasal polyposis. Since drugs can be absorbed into the …

Human beta cells produce and release serotonin to inhibit glucagon secretion from alpha cells

J Almaça, J Molina, D Menegaz, AN Pronin, A Tamayo… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
In the pancreatic islet, serotonin is an autocrine signal increasing beta cell mass during
metabolic challenges such as those associated with pregnancy or high-fat diet. It is still …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in the blood–brain barrier: implications for mental health

L Dion-Albert, LB Binder, B Daigle, A Hong-Minh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Prevalence of mental disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar
disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are increasing at alarming rates in our societies …

Design and application in delivery system of intranasal antidepressants

J Xu, J Tao, J Wang - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
One of the major reasons why depressed patients fail their treatment course is the existence
of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which prevents drugs from being delivered to the central …

Clinical implementation of pharmacogenetic decision support tools for antidepressant drug prescribing

Z Zeier, LL Carpenter, NH Kalin… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
The accrual and analysis of genomic sequencing data have identified specific genetic
variants that are associated with major depressive disorder. Moreover, substantial …