Drug delivery to the central nervous system

E Nance, SH Pun, R Saigal, DL Sellers - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the rising global incidence of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, CNS drug
development remains challenging, with high costs, long pathways to clinical use and high …

Development of polymeric nanoparticles for blood–brain barrier transfer—strategies and challenges

W Zhang, A Mehta, Z Tong, L Esser… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and brain cancers are difficult to
treat with current drugs as their delivery efficacy to the brain is severely hampered by the …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in drug delivery

C Li, J Wang, Y Wang, H Gao, G Wei, Y Huang… - … pharmaceutica sinica B, 2019 - Elsevier
Drug delivery systems (DDS) are defined as methods by which drugs are delivered to
desired tissues, organs, cells and subcellular organs for drug release and absorption …

Nanomaterial-based blood-brain-barrier (BBB) crossing strategies

J Xie, Z Shen, Y Anraku, K Kataoka, X Chen - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing attention has been paid to the diseases of central nervous system (CNS). The
penetration efficiency of most CNS drugs into the brain parenchyma is rather limited due to …

Transcytosis to cross the blood brain barrier, new advancements and challenges

VM Pulgar - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The blood brain barrier (BBB) presents a formidable challenge to the delivery of drugs into
the brain. Several strategies aim to overcome this obstacle and promote efficient and …

Advances in nanomaterial-based targeted drug delivery systems

X Cheng, Q Xie, Y Sun - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nanomaterial-based drug delivery systems (NBDDS) are widely used to improve the safety
and therapeutic efficacy of encapsulated drugs due to their unique physicochemical and …

Brain‐targeted liposomes loaded with monoclonal antibodies reduce alpha‐synuclein aggregation and improve behavioral symptoms in Parkinson's disease

M Sela, M Poley, P Mora‐Raimundo… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) hold promise in treating Parkinson's disease (PD), although
poor delivery to the brain hinders their therapeutic application. In the current study, it is …

Gold nanostructures: synthesis, properties, and neurological applications

I Zare, MT Yaraki, G Speranza, AH Najafabadi… - Chemical society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in technology are expected to increase our current understanding of
neuroscience. Nanotechnology and nanomaterials can alter and control neural functionality …

Targeting the transferrin receptor for brain drug delivery

KB Johnsen, A Burkhart, LB Thomsen… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Obtaining efficient drug delivery to the brain remains the biggest challenge for the
development of therapeutics to treat diseases of the central nervous system. The main …

Post-capillary venules are the key locus for transcytosis-mediated brain delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles

K Kucharz, K Kristensen, KB Johnsen, MA Lund… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Effective treatments of neurodegenerative diseases require drugs to be actively transported
across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). However, nanoparticle drug carriers explored for this …