Passive, active and endogenous organ-targeted lipid and polymer nanoparticles for delivery of genetic drugs

SA Dilliard, DJ Siegwart - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic drugs based on nucleic acid biomolecules are a rapidly emerging class of
medicines that directly reprogramme the central dogma of biology to prevent and treat …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosomal functions of progranulin and implications for treatment of frontotemporal dementia

MJ Simon, T Logan, SL DeVos, G Di Paolo - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Loss-of-function heterozygous mutations in GRN, the gene encoding progranulin (PGRN),
were identified in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) almost two …

Crossing the blood-brain barrier with nanoparticles

Y Zhou, Z Peng, ES Seven, RM Leblanc - Journal of controlled release, 2018 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is one of the most essential protection mechanisms in the
central nervous system (CNS). It selectively allows individual molecules such as small lipid …

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 …

Development and cell biology of the blood-brain barrier

UH Langen, S Ayloo, C Gu - Annual review of cell and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The vertebrate vasculature displays high organotypic specialization, with the structure and
function of blood vessels catering to the specific needs of each tissue. A unique feature of …

Brain delivery of therapeutic proteins using an Fc fragment blood-brain barrier transport vehicle in mice and monkeys

MS Kariolis, RC Wells, JA Getz, W Kwan… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Effective delivery of protein therapeutics to the central nervous system (CNS) has been
greatly restricted by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). We describe the development of a BBB …

A review on advances of treatment modalities for Alzheimer's disease

ES Thoe, A Fauzi, YQ Tang, S Chamyuang, AYY Chia - Life sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disease which is mainly
characterized by progressive impairment in cognition, emotion, language and memory in …

The delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides

RL Juliano - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The oligonucleotide therapeutics field has seen remarkable progress over the last few years
with the approval of the first antisense drug and with promising developments in late stage …