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] Factors influencing the blood-brain barrier permeability

Y Zhao, L Gan, L Ren, Y Lin, C Ma, X Lin - Brain research, 2022 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a dynamic structure that protects the brain from harmful
blood-borne, endogenous and exogenous substances and maintains the homeostatic …

Nanomedicine for brain cancer

S Quader, K Kataoka, H Cabral - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
CNS tumors remain among the deadliest forms of cancer, resisting conventional and new
treatment approaches, with mortality rates staying practically unchanged over the past 30 …

Current strategies to enhance delivery of drugs across the blood–brain barrier

RI Teleanu, MD Preda, AG Niculescu, O Vladâcenco… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) has shown to be a significant obstacle to brain medication
delivery. The BBB in a healthy brain is a diffusion barrier that prevents most substances from …

Structure-based design of nanobodies that inhibit seeding of Alzheimer's patient–extracted tau fibrils

R Abskharon, H Pan, MR Sawaya… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Despite much effort, antibody therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have shown limited
efficacy. Challenges to the rational design of effective antibodies include the difficulty of …

A predictive microfluidic model of human glioblastoma to assess trafficking of blood–brain barrier-penetrant nanoparticles

JP Straehla, C Hajal, HC Safford… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The blood–brain barrier represents a significant challenge for the treatment of high-grade
gliomas, and our understanding of drug transport across this critical biointerface remains …

Analysis of brain and blood single-cell transcriptomics in acute and subacute phases after experimental stroke

L Garcia-Bonilla, Z Shahanoor, R Sciortino… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cerebral ischemia triggers a powerful inflammatory reaction involving peripheral leukocytes
and brain resident cells that contribute to both tissue injury and repair. However, their …

Functionalized nanomaterials capable of crossing the blood–brain barrier

S Zha, H Liu, H Li, H Li, KL Wong, AH All - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a specialized semipermeable structure that highly
regulates exchanges between the central nervous system parenchyma and blood vessels …

Recent advances in drug delivery and targeting to the brain

B Sethi, V Kumar, K Mahato, DW Coulter… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our body keeps separating the toxic chemicals in the blood from the brain. A significant
number of drugs do not enter the central nervous system (CNS) due to the blood-brain …

Liposomes for the treatment of brain cancer—A review

R Raju, WH Abuwatfa, WG Pitt, GA Husseini - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to their biocompatibility, non-toxicity, and surface-conjugation capabilities, liposomes
are effective nanocarriers that can encapsulate chemotherapeutic drugs and facilitate …