Revisiting the blood-brain barrier: A hard nut to crack in the transportation of drug molecules

S Harilal, J Jose, R Kumar, MK Unnikrishnan… - Brain research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Barriers are the hallmark of a healthy physiology, blood-brain barrier (BBB) being a tough
nut to crack for most of the antigens and chemical substances. The presence of tight …

[HTML][HTML] An insight into the risk factors of brain tumors and their therapeutic interventions

S Rasheed, K Rehman, MSH Akash - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Brain tumors are an abnormal growth of cells in the brain, also known as multifactorial
groups of neoplasm. Incidence rates of brain tumors increase rapidly, and it has become a …

Machine learning-a new paradigm in nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery to cancerous tissues through the human cardiovascular system enhanced by magnetic field

Y Akhtar, S Ahmad, F Khalid, MD Junjua, Y Aryanfar… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery offers a promising approach to targeted cancer
therapy, leveraging the ability of nanoparticles to deliver therapeutic agents directly to …

An innovative one step green supercritical CO2 process for the production of liposomes co-encapsulating both a hydrophobic and a hydrophilic compound for …

N Penoy, KL Delma, HA Tonakpon, B Grignard… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Budesonide and salbutamol-loaded liposomes were prepared using an innovative one step
supercritical CO 2 method without any use of organic solvents. Liposomes composed of …

Computational modeling of drug delivery to solid tumors: A pilot study based on a real image

FM Kashkooli, M Soltani, MM Momeni - Journal of Drug Delivery Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study uses a multi-scale computational model to assess drug delivery to a solid tumor
and to predict the treatment's efficacy. A geometric model of the tumor and the capillary …

Effect of infusion direction on convection-enhanced drug delivery to anisotropic tissue

Y Yang, T Yuan… - Journal of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Convection-enhanced delivery (CED) can effectively overcome the blood–brain barrier by
infusing drugs directly into diseased sites in the brain using a catheter, but its clinical …

Effect of tissue permeability and drug diffusion anisotropy on convection-enhanced delivery

W Zhan, F Rodriguez y Baena, D Dini - Drug delivery, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Although convection-enhanced delivery (CED) can successfully facilitate a bypass of the
blood brain barrier, its treatment efficacy remains highly limited in clinic. This can be partially …

Convection enhanced delivery of anti-angiogenic and cytotoxic agents in combination therapy against brain tumour

W Zhan - European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Convection enhanced delivery is an effective alternative to routine delivery methods to
overcome the blood brain barrier. However, its treatment efficacy remains disappointing in …

Convection-enhanced delivery of antiangiogenic drugs and liposomal cytotoxic drugs to heterogeneous brain tumor for combination therapy

A Bhandari, K Jaiswal, A Singh, W Zhan - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Although developed anticancer drugs have shown desirable effects in
preclinical trials, the clinical efficacy of chemotherapy against brain cancer remains …

Polymersomes for Sustained Delivery of a Chalcone Derivative Targeting Glioblastoma Cells

A Alves, AM Silva, J Moreira, C Nunes, S Reis, M Pinto… - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a primary malignant tumor of the central nervous system responsible
for the most deaths among patients with primary brain tumors. Current therapies for GBM are …