Challenges and hopes for Alzheimer's disease

SA Tatulian - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent drug development efforts targeting Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to produce
effective disease-modifying agents for many reasons, including the substantial …

Applications of focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening

CM Gorick, VR Breza, KM Nowak, VWT Cheng… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The blood brain barrier (BBB) plays a critically important role in the regulation of central
nervous system (CNS) homeostasis, but also represents a major limitation to treatments of …

Arachnoid granulations are lymphatic conduits that communicate with bone marrow and dura-arachnoid stroma

T Shah, SE Leurgans, RI Mehta, J Yang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Arachnoid granulations (AG) are poorly investigated. Historical reports suggest that they
regulate brain volume by passively transporting cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) into dural venous …

Dysfunction of the blood–brain barrier in Alzheimer's disease: evidence from human studies

C Kurz, L Walker, BS Rauchmann… - Neuropathology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The pathological processes leading to synapse loss, neuronal loss, brain atrophy and
gliosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their relation to vascular disease and immunological …

Focused ultrasound–mediated blood-brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease: long-term safety, imaging, and cognitive outcomes

AR Rezai, M Ranjan, MW Haut, J Carpenter… - Journal of …, 2022 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE MRI-guided low-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) has been shown to
reversibly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB), with the potential to deliver therapeutic agents …

What is 'Alzheimer's disease'? The neuropathological heterogeneity of clinically defined Alzheimer's dementia

RI Mehta, JA Schneider - Current opinion in neurology, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Alzheimer's dementia is a pathologically heterogeneous and biologically multilayered
disease. Recent studies and exercises in nomenclature reveal shortcomings in existing …

Non-invasive drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier: a prospective analysis

SK Niazi - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Non-invasive drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) represents a significant
advancement in treating neurological diseases. The BBB is a tightly packed layer of …

The glymphatic system in humans: investigations with magnetic resonance imaging

S Naganawa, T Taoka, R Ito… - Investigative …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
The concept of the glymphatic system was proposed more than a decade ago as a
mechanism for interstitial fluid flow and waste removal in the central nervous system. The …

[HTML][HTML] Transcranial blood-brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease patients using a portable focused ultrasound system with real-time 2-D cavitation mapping

S Bae, K Liu, AN Pouliopoulos, R Ji… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Focused ultrasound (FUS) in combination with microbubbles has recently
shown great promise in facilitating blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening for drug delivery and …

The blood-brain barrier, a Key Bridge to treat neurodegenerative diseases

Z Hang, L Zhou, C Xing, Y Wen, H Du - Ageing Research Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
As a highly selective and semi-permeable barrier that separates the circulating blood from
the brain and central nervous system (CNS), the blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays a critical …