Overcoming the blood–brain tumor barrier for effective glioblastoma treatment

O Van Tellingen, B Yetkin-Arik, MC De Gooijer… - Drug Resistance …, 2015 - Elsevier
Gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors. Particularly in adult patients, the vast
majority of gliomas belongs to the heterogeneous group of diffuse gliomas, ie. glial tumors …

[HTML][HTML] Drug delivery to the brain: recent advances and unmet challenges

S Bhunia, N Kolishetti, A Vashist, A Yndart Arias… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Brain cancers and neurodegenerative diseases are on the rise, treatments for central
nervous system (CNS) diseases remain limited. Despite the significant advancement in drug …

Dietary restriction of cysteine and methionine sensitizes gliomas to ferroptosis and induces alterations in energetic metabolism

PS Upadhyayula, DM Higgins, A Mela, M Banu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroptosis is mediated by lipid peroxidation of phospholipids containing polyunsaturated
fatty acyl moieties. Glutathione, the key cellular antioxidant capable of inhibiting lipid …

The mitotic kinesin KIF11 is a driver of invasion, proliferation, and self-renewal in glioblastoma

M Venere, C Horbinski, JF Crish, X **… - Science translational …, 2015 - science.org
The proliferative and invasive nature of malignant cancers drives lethality. In glioblastoma,
these two processes are presumed mutually exclusive and hence termed “go or grow.” We …

Recent advances in the application of two-dimensional nanomaterials for neural tissue engineering and regeneration

A Halim, KY Qu, XF Zhang… - ACS Biomaterials Science …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The complexity of the nervous system structure and function, and its slow regeneration rate,
makes it more difficult to treat compared to other tissues in the human body when an injury …

Focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening increases delivery and efficacy of etoposide for glioblastoma treatment

HJ Wei, PS Upadhyayula, AN Pouliopoulos… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating disease. With the current treatment of surgery
followed by chemoradiation, outcomes remain poor, with median survival of only 15 months …

Novel delivery methods bypassing the blood-brain and blood-tumor barriers

BK Hendricks, AA Cohen-Gadol, JC Miller - Neurosurgical focus, 2015 - thejns.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor and carries a grave prognosis.
Despite years of research investigating potentially new therapies for GBM, the median …

Therapeutic strategies to improve drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier

TD Azad, J Pan, ID Connolly, A Remington… - Neurosurgical …, 2015 - thejns.org
Resection of brain tumors is followed by chemotherapy and radiation to ablate remaining
malignant cell populations. Targeting these populations stands to reduce tumor recurrence …

Overall survival in malignant glioma is significantly prolonged by neurosurgical delivery of etoposide and temozolomide from a thermo-responsive biodegradable …

SJ Smith, BM Tyler, T Gould, GJ Veal… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: High-grade glioma (HGG) treatment is limited by the inability of otherwise
potentially efficacious drugs to penetrate the blood–brain barrier. We evaluate the unique …

The nanocarrier strategy for crossing the blood-brain barrier in glioma therapy

H Wu, Y Wang, Z Ren, H Cong, Y Shen, B Yu - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Glioma is the most common malignant tumor of the brain. The postoperative recurrence rate
was high, and the 2-year survival rate only increased by 20%–25%. The reason is the blood …