Experimental models of in vitro blood–brain barrier for CNS drug delivery: an evolutionary perspective

B Chaulagain, A Gothwal, RNL Lamptey… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Central nervous system (CNS) disorders represent one of the leading causes of global
health burden. Nonetheless, new therapies approved against these disorders are among …

Monoclonal antibodies: technologies for early discovery and engineering

PJ Kennedy, C Oliveira, PL Granja… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Antibodies are essential in modern life sciences biotechnology. Their architecture and
diversity allow for high specificity and affinity to a wide array of biochemicals. Combining …

Stimuli‐responsive multifunctional nanomedicine for enhanced glioblastoma chemotherapy augments multistage blood‐to‐brain trafficking and tumor targeting

C Martins, M Araújo, A Malfanti, C Pacheco, SJ Smith… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Minimal therapeutic advances have been achieved over the past two decades for
glioblastoma (GBM), which remains an unmet clinical need. Here, hypothesis‐driven stimuli …

Unveiling the influence of tumor microenvironment and spatial heterogeneity on temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma using an advanced human in vitro model of …

MSY Lam, JJY Aw, D Tan, R Vijayakumar, HYG Lim… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain cancer in adults with a
dismal prognosis. Temozolomide (TMZ) is the first‐in‐line chemotherapeutic; however …

Hypoxic glioblastoma release exosomal VEGF-A induce the permeability of blood-brain barrier

C Zhao, H Wang, C **ong, Y Liu - Biochemical and biophysical research …, 2018 - Elsevier
Exosomes are nano-vesicles released by tumor cells to modulate extracellular environment.
Accumulating evidence revealed that glioblastoma derived exosomes contain multiple pro …

[HTML][HTML] Drug penetration into the central nervous system: pharmacokinetic concepts and in vitro model systems

F Neumaier, BD Zlatopolskiy, B Neumaier - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Delivery of most drugs into the central nervous system (CNS) is restricted by the blood–brain
barrier (BBB), which remains a significant bottleneck for development of novel CNS-targeted …

Immortalized endothelial cell lines for in vitro blood–brain barrier models: a systematic review

NA Rahman, ANHM Rasil, U Meyding-Lamade… - Brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
Endothelial cells play the most important role in construction of the blood–brain barrier.
Many studies have opted to use commercially available, easily transfected or immortalized …

[HTML][HTML] Established and emerging strategies for drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier in brain cancer

A Parodi, M Rudzińska, AA Deviatkin, SM Soond… - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Brain tumors are characterized by very high mortality and, despite the continuous research
on new pharmacological interventions, little therapeutic progress has been made. One of the …

Remodelling and treatment of the blood-brain barrier in glioma

Y Wang, F Zhang, N **ong, H Xu, S Chai… - Cancer Management …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is an essential structure of the central nervous system (CNS),
and its existence makes the local internal environment of the CNS a relatively independent …

Using microfluidic platforms to develop CNS-targeted polymeric nanoparticles for HIV therapy

C Martins, F Araújo, MJ Gomes, C Fernandes… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) uses the brain as reservoir, which turns it as a
promising target to fight this pathology. Nanoparticles (NPs) of poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid …