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 …

The blood–brain barrier and blood–tumour barrier in brain tumours and metastases

CD Arvanitis, GB Ferraro, RK Jain - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
For a blood-borne cancer therapeutic agent to be effective, it must cross the blood vessel
wall to reach cancer cells in adequate quantities, and it must overcome the resistance …

The blood–tumour barrier in cancer biology and therapy

PS Steeg - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2021 - nature.com
The protective blood–brain barrier has a major role in ensuring normal brain function by
severely limiting and tightly controlling the ingress of substances into the brain from the …

Brain metastases

AS Achrol, RC Rennert, C Anders, R Soffietti… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
An estimated 20% of all patients with cancer will develop brain metastases, with the majority
of brain metastases occurring in those with lung, breast and colorectal cancers, melanoma …

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 …

Optical blood-brain-tumor barrier modulation expands therapeutic options for glioblastoma treatment

Q Cai, X Li, H **ong, H Fan, X Gao, V Vemireddy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The treatment of glioblastoma has limited clinical progress over the past decade, partly due
to the lack of effective drug delivery strategies across the blood-brain-tumor barrier …

Blood-brain barrier, blood-brain tumor barrier, and fluorescence-guided neurosurgical oncology: delivering optical labels to brain tumors

E Belykh, KV Shaffer, C Lin, VA Byvaltsev… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in maximum safe glioma resection have included the introduction of a host
of visualization techniques to complement intraoperative white-light imaging of tumors …

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

JP Straehla, C Hajal, HC Safford, GS Offeddu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
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 …

DNA sequences within glioma-derived extracellular vesicles can cross the intact blood-brain barrier and be detected in peripheral blood of patients

N García-Romero, J Carrión-Navarro… - …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor-cell-secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs) can cross the disrupted blood-brain barrier
(BBB) into the bloodstream. However, in certain gliomas, the BBB remains intact, which …

Distinct phenotypic states and spatial distribution of CD8+ T cell clonotypes in human brain metastases

LJ Sudmeier, KB Hoang, EK Nduom, A Wieland… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Metastatic disease in the brain is difficult to control and predicts poor prognosis. Here, we
analyze human brain metastases and demonstrate their robust infiltration by CD8+ T cell …