Electroresponsive hydrogels for therapeutic applications in the brain

ZM Khan, E Wilts, E Vlaisavljevich… - Macromolecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electroresponsive hydrogels possess a conducting material component and respond to
electric stimulation through reversible absorption and expulsion of water. The high level of …

A review of microdialysis sampling for pharmacokinetic applications

MI Davies - Analytica Chimica Acta, 1999 - Elsevier
As an in vivo technique, microdialysis sampling reflects the composition of the extracellular
fluid and can be used in virtually any tissue, organ or biological fluid. Microdialysis has …

Standard antiepileptic drugs fail to block epileptiform activity in rat organotypic hippocampal slice cultures

K Albus, A Wahab, U Heinemann - British journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose: Earlier studies had demonstrated that tonic–clonic seizure‐like
events (SLEs) resembling electrographic correlates of limbic seizures in animals and …

Immortalized human brain endothelial cells and flow-based vascular modeling: a marriage of convenience for rational neurovascular studies

L Cucullo, PO Couraud, B Weksler… - Journal of cerebral …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
In evaluating drugs that enter or are excluded from the brain, novel pharmaceutical
strategies are needed. For this reason, we have developed a humanized Dynamic In vitro …

In vivo evidence for P‐Glycoprotein–Mediated transport of phenytoin at the blood–brain barrier of rats

H Potschka, W Löscher - Epilepsia, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The multidrug transporter P‐glycoprotein (P‐gp) is expressed at high levels in a
variety of tissues such as the endothelial cells of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) capillaries …

A Dynamic in vitro BBB Model for the Study of Immune Cell Trafficking into the Central Nervous System

L Cucullo, N Marchi, M Hossain… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Although there is significant evidence correlating overreacting or perhaps misguided
immune cells and the blood–brain barrier (BBB) with the pathogenesis of neuroinflammatory …

Development of a humanized in vitro blood–brain barrier model to screen for brain penetration of antiepileptic drugs

L Cucullo, M Hossain, E Rapp, T Manders, N Marchi… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: A biotechnologic breakthrough for the study of drug permeability across the blood–
brain barrier (BBB) would be the use of a reproducible in vitro model that recapitulates the …

[HTML][HTML] A new dynamic in vitro modular capillaries-venules modular system: Cerebrovascular physiology in a box

L Cucullo, M Hossain, W Tierney, D Janigro - BMC neuroscience, 2013 - Springer
Background The study of the cerebrovascular physiology is crucial to understand the
pathogenesis of neurological disease and the pharmacokinetic of drugs. Appropriate …

A microdialysis study of the novel antiepileptic drug levetiracetam: extracellular pharmacokinetics and effect on taurine in rat brain

X Tong, PN Patsalos - British journal of pharmacology, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Using a rat model which allows serial blood sampling and concurrent brain microdialysis
sampling, we have investigated the temporal kinetic inter‐relationship of levetiracetam in …

Pluronic P85-coated poly (butylcyanoacrylate) nanoparticles overcome phenytoin resistance in P-glycoprotein overexpressing rats with lithium-pilocarpine-induced …

Z Fang, S Chen, J Qin, B Chen, G Ni, Z Chen, J Zhou… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
P-glycoprotein (Pgp) overexpression in the blood brain barrier (BBB) is hypothesized to
lower brain drug concentrations and thus inhibit anticonvulsant effects in drug-resistant …