The kynurenine pathway: a finger in every pie

J Savitz - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
The kynurenine pathway (KP) plays a critical role in generating cellular energy in the form of
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Because energy requirements are substantially …

Healthy aging and the blood–brain barrier

WA Banks, MJ Reed, AF Logsdon, EM Rhea… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) protects the central nervous system (CNS) from unregulated
exposure to the blood and its contents. The BBB also controls the blood-to-brain and brain …

Autoimmune psychosis: an international consensus on an approach to the diagnosis and management of psychosis of suspected autoimmune origin

TA Pollak, BR Lennox, S Müller, ME Benros… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
There is increasing recognition in the neurological and psychiatric literature of patients with
so-called isolated psychotic presentations (ie, with no, or minimal, neurological features) …

[HTML][HTML] Blood–brain barrier dynamics to maintain brain homeostasis

M Segarra, MR Aburto, A Acker-Palmer - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a dynamic platform for exchange of substances between
the blood and the brain parenchyma, and it is an essential functional gatekeeper for the …

Fibrinogen in neurological diseases: mechanisms, imaging and therapeutics

MA Petersen, JK Ryu, K Akassoglou - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The blood coagulation protein fibrinogen is deposited in the brain in a wide range of
neurological diseases and traumatic injuries with blood–brain barrier (BBB) disruption …

Blood-brain barrier regulation in psychiatric disorders

J Kealy, C Greene, M Campbell - Neuroscience letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a dynamic interface between the peripheral blood supply
and the cerebral parenchyma, controlling the transport of material to and from the brain …

Cross talk: the microbiota and neurodevelopmental disorders

JR Kelly, C Minuto, JF Cryan, G Clarke… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Humans evolved within a microbial ecosystem resulting in an interlinked physiology. The gut
microbiota can signal to the brain via the immune system, the vagus nerve or other host …

Smart nanomedicine to enable crossing blood–brain barrier delivery of checkpoint blockade antibody for immunotherapy of glioma

H Wang, Y Chao, H Zhao, X Zhou, F Zhang, Z Zhang… - Acs Nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has shown tremendous promises in the
treatment of various types of tumors. However, ICB therapy with antibodies appears to be …

Blood-brain barrier permeability and physical exercise

MA Małkiewicz, A Szarmach, A Sabisz… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
In this narrative review, a theoretical framework on the crosstalk between physical exercise
and blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability is presented. We discuss the influence of …

Elimination of substances from the brain parenchyma: efflux via perivascular pathways and via the blood–brain barrier

SB Hladky, MA Barrand - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2018 - Springer
This review considers efflux of substances from brain parenchyma quantified as values of
clearances (CL, stated in µL g− 1 min− 1). Total clearance of a substance is the sum of …