The blood–brain barrier and blood–tumour barrier in brain tumours and metastases

CD Arvanitis, GB Ferraro, RK Jain - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
For a blood-borne cancer therapeutic agent to be effective, it must cross the blood vessel
wall to reach cancer cells in adequate quantities, and it must overcome the resistance …

The blood–tumour barrier in cancer biology and therapy

PS Steeg - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2021 - nature.com
The protective blood–brain barrier has a major role in ensuring normal brain function by
severely limiting and tightly controlling the ingress of substances into the brain from the …

Blood-brain barrier–penetrating single CRISPR-Cas9 nanocapsules for effective and safe glioblastoma gene therapy

Y Zou, X Sun, Q Yang, M Zheng, O Shimoni… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
We designed a unique nanocapsule for efficient single CRISPR-Cas9 capsuling,
noninvasive brain delivery and tumor cell targeting, demonstrating an effective and safe …

Improving cancer immunotherapy using nanomedicines: progress, opportunities and challenges

JD Martin, H Cabral, T Stylianopoulos… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Multiple nanotherapeutics have been approved for patients with cancer, but their effects on
survival have been modest and, in some examples, less than those of other approved …

Current approaches to the management of brain metastases

JH Suh, R Kotecha, ST Chao, MS Ahluwalia… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Brain metastases are a very common manifestation of cancer that have historically been
approached as a single disease entity given the uniform association with poor clinical …

Multifunctional nanotheranostics for near infrared optical imaging-guided treatment of brain tumors

L Zhang, Y Liu, H Huang, H Xie, B Zhang, W Xia… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Malignant brain tumors, a heterogeneous group of primary and metastatic neoplasms in the
central nervous system (CNS), are notorious for their highly invasive and devastating …

MR-guided focused ultrasound enhances delivery of trastuzumab to Her2-positive brain metastases

Y Meng, RM Reilly, RC Pezo, M Trudeau… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is an important factor limiting the effectiveness of central
nervous system (CNS) therapeutics. MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is a …

Understanding the activity of antibody–drug conjugates in primary and secondary brain tumours

MJ Mair, R Bartsch, E Le Rhun, AS Berghoff… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs), a class of targeted cancer therapeutics
combining monoclonal antibodies with a cytotoxic payload via a chemical linker, have …

Overview of current drug delivery methods across the blood–brain barrier for the treatment of primary brain tumors

R Haumann, JC Videira, GJL Kaspers… - CNS drugs, 2020 - Springer
Existing drug delivery methods have not led to a significant increase in survival for patients
with malignant primary brain tumors. While the combination of conventional therapies …

Ultrasound frequency-controlled microbubble dynamics in brain vessels regulate the enrichment of inflammatory pathways in the blood-brain barrier

Y Guo, H Lee, C Kim, C Park, A Yamamichi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbubble-enhanced ultrasound provides a noninvasive physical method to locally
overcome major obstacles to the accumulation of blood-borne therapeutics in the brain …