The blood–brain barrier: structure, regulation, and drug delivery

D Wu, Q Chen, X Chen, F Han, Z Chen… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a natural protective membrane that prevents central nervous
system (CNS) from toxins and pathogens in blood. However, the presence of BBB …

Crossing the blood-brain barrier: advances in nanoparticle technology for drug delivery in neuro-oncology

AM Hersh, S Alomari, BM Tyler - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) constitutes a microvascular network responsible for excluding
most drugs from the brain. Treatment of brain tumors is limited by the impermeability of the …

A historical review of brain drug delivery

WM Pardridge - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of brain drug delivery is reviewed beginning with the first demonstration, in 1914,
that a drug for syphilis, salvarsan, did not enter the brain, due to the presence of a blood …

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 …

Optical blood-brain-tumor barrier modulation expands therapeutic options for glioblastoma treatment

Q Cai, X Li, H Xiong, H Fan, X Gao, V Vemireddy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The treatment of glioblastoma has limited clinical progress over the past decade, partly due
to the lack of effective drug delivery strategies across the blood-brain-tumor barrier …

Inorganic nano-drug delivery systems for crossing the blood–brain barrier: Advances and challenges

Q Tan, S Zhao, T Xu, Q Wang, M Zhang, L Yan… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) exists between plasma and brain tissue. It comprises a
capillary wall and glial cells and prevents external substances, including therapeutic agents …

Functionalized nanomaterials capable of crossing the blood–brain barrier

S Zha, H Liu, H Li, H Li, KL Wong, AH All - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a specialized semipermeable structure that highly
regulates exchanges between the central nervous system parenchyma and blood vessels …

How nanoparticles open the paracellular route of biological barriers: mechanisms, applications, and prospects

J Wu, Z Zhu, W Liu, Y Zhang, Y Kang, J Liu, C Hu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Biological barriers are essential physiological protective systems and obstacles to drug
delivery. Nanoparticles (NPs) can access the paracellular route of biological barriers, either …

Vasculature organotropism in drug delivery

A Amruta, D Iannotta, SW Cheetham, T Lammers… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, there has been an exponential increase in the development of
preclinical and clinical nanodelivery systems, and recently, an accelerating demand to …

Micro‐nanocarriers based drug delivery technology for blood‐brain barrier crossing and brain tumor targeting therapy

L Wang, Y Shi, J Jiang, C Li, H Zhang, X Zhang… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The greatest obstacle to using drugs to treat brain tumors is the blood‐brain barrier (BBB),
making it difficult for conventional drug molecules to enter the brain. Therefore, how to safely …