[HTML][HTML] Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for brain imaging and drug delivery

R Qiao, C Fu, H Forgham, I Javed, X Huang… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Central nervous system (CNS) disorders affect as many as 1.5 billion people globally. The
limited delivery of most imaging and therapeutic agents into the brain is a major challenge …

Overcoming the blood–brain barrier: the role of nanomaterials in treating neurological diseases

D Furtado, M Björnmalm, S Ayton, AI Bush… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Therapies directed toward the central nervous system remain difficult to translate into
improved clinical outcomes. This is largely due to the blood–brain barrier (BBB), arguably …

Ultrasound frequency-controlled microbubble dynamics in brain vessels regulate the enrichment of inflammatory pathways in the blood-brain barrier

Y Guo, H Lee, C Kim, C Park, A Yamamichi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbubble-enhanced ultrasound provides a noninvasive physical method to locally
overcome major obstacles to the accumulation of blood-borne therapeutics in the brain …

Ultrasound-mediated blood–brain barrier disruption for targeted drug delivery in the central nervous system

M Aryal, CD Arvanitis, PM Alexander… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2014 - Elsevier
The physiology of the vasculature in the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the
blood–brain barrier (BBB) and other factors, complicates the delivery of most drugs to the …

Towards controlled drug delivery in brain tumors with microbubble-enhanced focused ultrasound

S Schoen Jr, MS Kilinc, H Lee, Y Guo… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain tumors are particularly challenging malignancies, due to their location in a structurally
and functionally distinct part of the human body–the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS …

Gene therapy for the CNS using AAVs: the impact of systemic delivery by AAV9

J Saraiva, RJ Nobre, LP de Almeida - Journal of Controlled Release, 2016 - Elsevier
Several attempts have been made to discover the ideal vector for gene therapy in central
nervous system (CNS). Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are currently the preferred vehicle …

Theranostic strategy of focused ultrasound induced blood-brain barrier opening for CNS disease treatment

KT Chen, KC Wei, HL Liu - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Focused Ultrasound (FUS) in combination with gaseous microbubbles has emerged as a
potential new means of effective drug delivery to the brain. Recent research has shown that …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art of microbubble-assisted blood-brain barrier disruption

KH Song, BK Harvey, MA Borden - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Focused ultrasound with microbubbles promises unprecedented advantages for blood-brain
barrier disruption over existing intracranial drug delivery methods, as well as a significant …

[HTML][HTML] Focused ultrasound mitigates pathology and improves spatial memory in Alzheimer's mice and patients

ME Karakatsani, R Ji, MF Murillo, T Kugelman… - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Bilateral sonication with focused ultrasound (FUS) in conjunction with
microbubbles has been shown to separately reduce amyloid plaques and …

Long-term safety of repeated blood-brain barrier opening via focused ultrasound with microbubbles in non-human primates performing a cognitive task

ME Downs, A Buch, C Sierra, ME Karakatsani, S Chen… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Focused Ultrasound (FUS) coupled with intravenous administration of microbubbles (MB) is
a non-invasive technique that has been shown to reliably open (increase the permeability …