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] Ultrasound blood–brain barrier opening and aducanumab in Alzheimer's disease

AR Rezai, PF D'Haese, V Finomore… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Antiamyloid antibodies have been used to reduce cerebral amyloid-beta (Aβ) load in
patients with Alzheimer's disease. We applied focused ultrasound with each of six monthly …

Repeated blood–brain barrier opening with an implantable ultrasound device for delivery of albumin-bound paclitaxel in patients with recurrent glioblastoma: a phase …

AM Sonabend, A Gould, C Amidei, R Ward… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound with concomitant administration of intravenous
microbubbles (LIPU-MB) can be used to open the blood–brain barrier. We aimed to assess …

BBB opening with focused ultrasound in nonhuman primates and Parkinson's disease patients: Targeted AAV vector delivery and PET imaging

J Blesa, JA Pineda-Pardo, K Inoue, C Gasca-Salas… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Intracerebral vector delivery in nonhuman primates has been a major challenge. We report
successful blood-brain barrier opening and focal delivery of adeno-associated virus …

Targeting brain metastases in breast cancer

C Corti, G Antonarelli, C Criscitiello, NU Lin… - Cancer Treatment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain metastases (BMs) are an important source of morbidity and mortality in patients with
metastatic breast cancer (BC). As survival of patients with advanced BC considerably …

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 …

Putaminal Recombinant Glucocerebrosidase Delivery with Magnetic Resonance–Guided Focused Ultrasound in Parkinson's Disease: A Phase I Study

Y Meng, CB Pople, Y Huang, RM Jones… - Movement …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background GBA1 mutation is the most common genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease
(PD). Replacement of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase (GCase) slows …

Blood–brain barrier opening of the default mode network in Alzheimer's disease with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound

Y Meng, M Goubran, JS Rabin, M McSweeney, J Ottoy… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain but is also an important obstacle for the
effective delivery of therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative …

Focused ultrasound–mediated blood-brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease: long-term safety, imaging, and cognitive outcomes

AR Rezai, M Ranjan, MW Haut, J Carpenter… - Journal of …, 2022 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE MRI-guided low-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) has been shown to
reversibly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB), with the potential to deliver therapeutic agents …