Strategies for delivering therapeutics across the blood–brain barrier

GC Terstappen, AH Meyer, RD Bell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Achieving sufficient delivery across the blood–brain barrier is a key challenge in the
development of drugs to treat central nervous system (CNS) disorders. This is particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Blood-brain barrier: from physiology to disease and back

MD Sweeney, Z Zhao, A Montagne… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents neurotoxic plasma components, blood cells, and
pathogens from entering the brain. At the same time, the BBB regulates transport of …

Progress in tumor-associated macrophage (TAM)-targeted therapeutics

C Ngambenjawong, HH Gustafson, SH Pun - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
As an essential innate immune population for maintaining body homeostasis and warding
off foreign pathogens, macrophages display high plasticity and perform diverse supportive …

Liposomes coated with isolated macrophage membrane can target lung metastasis of breast cancer

H Cao, Z Dan, X He, Z Zhang, H Yu, Q Yin, Y Li - ACS nano, 2016 - ACS Publications
Cancer metastasis leads to high mortality of breast cancer and is difficult to treat because of
the poor delivery efficiency of drugs. Herein, we report the wrapping of a drug-carrying …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage membrane-coated nanocarriers Co-Modified by RVG29 and TPP improve brain neuronal mitochondria-targeting and therapeutic efficacy in …

Y Han, C Gao, H Wang, J Sun, M Liang, Y Feng, Q Liu… - Bioactive materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Neuronal mitochondrial dysfunction caused by excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) is
an early event of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), and considered to be a key pathologic …

Development of novel therapeutics targeting the blood–brain barrier: from barrier to carrier

J Li, M Zheng, O Shimoni, WA Banks, AI Bush… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly specialized neurovascular unit, initially described
as an intact barrier to prevent toxins, pathogens, and potentially harmful substances from …

Strategies for transporting nanoparticles across the blood–brain barrier

TT Zhang, W Li, G Meng, P Wang, W Liao - Biomaterials science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The existence of blood–brain barrier (BBB) hampers the effective treatment of central
nervous system (CNS) diseases. Almost all macromolecular drugs and more than 98% of …

Nanotheranostics for the management of hepatic ischemia‐reperfusion injury

Y Guan, W Yao, K Yi, C Zheng, S Lv, Y Tao, Z Hei, M Li - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatic ischemia‐reperfusion injury (IRI), in which an insufficient oxygen supply followed by
reperfusion leads to an inflammatory network and oxidative stress in disease tissue to cause …

Macrophages with cellular backpacks for targeted drug delivery to the brain

NL Klyachko, R Polak, MJ Haney, Y Zhao, RJG Neto… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
Most potent therapeutics are unable to cross the blood-brain barrier following systemic
administration, which necessitates the development of unconventional, clinically applicable …

Nucleic acid drug vectors for diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases

ZG Lu, J Shen, J Yang, JW Wang, RC Zhao… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Nucleic acid drugs have the advantages of rich target selection, simple in design, good and
enduring effect. They have been demonstrated to have irreplaceable superiority in brain …