Drug delivery to the central nervous system

E Nance, SH Pun, R Saigal, DL Sellers - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the rising global incidence of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, CNS drug
development remains challenging, with high costs, long pathways to clinical use and high …

A historical review of brain drug delivery

WM Pardridge - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of brain drug delivery is reviewed beginning with the first demonstration, in 1914,
that a drug for syphilis, salvarsan, did not enter the brain, due to the presence of a blood …

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 …

Targeting the transferrin receptor for brain drug delivery

KB Johnsen, A Burkhart, LB Thomsen… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Obtaining efficient drug delivery to the brain remains the biggest challenge for the
development of therapeutics to treat diseases of the central nervous system. The main …

Sonodynamic therapy-derived multimodal synergistic cancer therapy

M Xu, L Zhou, L Zheng, Q Zhou, K Liu, Y Mao, S Song - Cancer letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) represents a promising modality that provides the possibility of
non-invasively eliminating solid tumors in a site-directed manner. In light of the complexity …

Post-capillary venules are the key locus for transcytosis-mediated brain delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles

K Kucharz, K Kristensen, KB Johnsen, MA Lund… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Effective treatments of neurodegenerative diseases require drugs to be actively transported
across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). However, nanoparticle drug carriers explored for this …

Recent advancements in liposomes targeting strategies to cross blood-brain barrier (BBB) for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

M Agrawal, DK Tripathi, S Saraf, S Saraf… - Journal of controlled …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this modern era, with the help of various advanced technologies, medical science has
overcome most of the health-related issues successfully. Though, some diseases still remain …

Modern methods for delivery of drugs across the blood–brain barrier

Y Chen, L Liu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly regulated and efficient barrier that provides a
sanctuary to the brain. It is designed to regulate brain homeostasis and to permit selective …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting transferrin receptors at the blood-brain barrier improves the uptake of immunoliposomes and subsequent cargo transport into the brain parenchyma

KB Johnsen, A Burkhart, F Melander, PJ Kempen… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Drug delivery to the brain is hampered by the presence of the blood-brain barrier, which
excludes most molecules from freely diffusing into the brain, and tightly regulates the active …

[HTML][HTML] Going beyond the liver: progress and challenges of targeted delivery of siRNA therapeutics

C Lorenzer, M Dirin, AM Winkler, V Baumann… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Therapeutic gene silencing promises significant progress in pharmacotherapy, including
considerable expansion of the druggable target space and the possibility for treating orphan …