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 …

[HTML][HTML] Updates in IDH-wildtype glioblastoma

JM Melhem, J Detsky, MJ Lim-Fat, JR Perry - Neurotherapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain tumor with a poor prognosis. The 2021
WHO CNS5 classification has further stressed the importance of molecular signatures in …

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 …

Applications of focused ultrasound for the treatment of glioblastoma: a new frontier

AM Hersh, M Bhimreddy, C Weber-Levine, K Jiang… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Glioblastoma (GBM) is a common primary brain tumor with a short median
overall survival despite aggressive treatment with resection, chemotherapy, and radiation …

Focused ultrasound for the treatment of glioblastoma

JW Roberts, L Powlovich, N Sheybani… - Journal of Neuro …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Six years ago, in 2015, the Focused Ultrasound Foundation sponsored a workshop
to discuss, and subsequently transition the landscape, of focused ultrasound as a new …

Translation of focused ultrasound for blood-brain barrier opening in glioma

C Brighi, E Salimova, M de Veer, S Puttick… - Journal of controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Survival outcomes for patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have remained poor for
the past 15 years, reflecting a clear challenge in the development of more effective treatment …

Clinical intervention using focused ultrasound (FUS) stimulation of the brain in diverse neurological disorders

H Baek, D Lockwood, EJ Mason, E Obusez… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Various surgical techniques and pharmaceutical treatments have been developed to
improve the current technologies of treating brain diseases. Focused ultrasound (FUS) is a …

First-in-human prospective trial of sonobiopsy in high-grade glioma patients using neuronavigation-guided focused ultrasound

J Yuan, L Xu, CY Chien, Y Yang, Y Yue… - NPJ Precision …, 2023 - nature.com
Sonobiopsy is an emerging technology that combines focused ultrasound (FUS) with
microbubbles to enrich circulating brain disease-specific biomarkers for noninvasive …

Pilot study of repeated blood-brain barrier disruption in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease with an implantable ultrasound device

S Epelbaum, N Burgos, M Canney, D Matthews… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2022 - Springer
Background Temporary disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) using pulsed ultrasound
leads to the clearance of both amyloid and tau from the brain, increased neurogenesis, and …