Challenges and hopes for Alzheimer's disease

SA Tatulian - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent drug development efforts targeting Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to produce
effective disease-modifying agents for many reasons, including the substantial …

Applications of focused ultrasound in the brain: from thermoablation to drug delivery

Y Meng, K Hynynen, N Lipsman - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
Focused ultrasound (FUS) is a disruptive medical technology, and its implementation in the
clinic represents the culmination of decades of research. Lying at the convergence of …

[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 …

Controlled tough bioadhesion mediated by ultrasound

Z Ma, C Bourquard, Q Gao, S Jiang, T De Iure-Grimmel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Tough bioadhesion has important implications in engineering and medicine but remains
challenging to form and control. We report an ultrasound (US)–mediated strategy to achieve …

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 …

Synchronous disintegration of ferroptosis defense axis via engineered exosome‐conjugated magnetic nanoparticles for glioblastoma therapy

B Li, X Chen, W Qiu, R Zhao, J Duan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most fatal central nervous system tumors and lacks
effective or sufficient therapies. Ferroptosis is a newly discovered method of programmed …

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 …

Biomarkers used in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

YAR Mahaman, KS Embaye, F Huang, L Li, F Zhu… - Ageing research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD), being the number one in terms of dementia burden, is an
insidious age-related neurodegenerative disease and is presently considered a global …

Dysfunction of the blood–brain barrier in Alzheimer's disease: evidence from human studies

C Kurz, L Walker, BS Rauchmann… - Neuropathology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The pathological processes leading to synapse loss, neuronal loss, brain atrophy and
gliosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their relation to vascular disease and immunological …