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 …

Cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs): potential, mechanisms of resistance, and strategies for reinvigorating T cell responsiveness when …

HE Marei, A Hasan, G Pozzoli, C Cenciarelli - Cancer cell international, 2023 - Springer
Cancer is still the leading cause of death globally. The approval of the therapeutic use of
monoclonal antibodies against immune checkpoint molecules, notably those that target the …

A biomimetic drug delivery system by integrating grapefruit extracellular vesicles and doxorubicin-loaded heparin-based nanoparticles for glioma therapy

W Niu, Q Xiao, X Wang, J Zhu, J Li, X Liang, Y Peng… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Existing nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery systems for glioma systemic chemotherapy
remain a great challenge due to poor delivery efficiency resulting from the blood brain …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of blood–brain barrier in brain diseases and related systemic nanoscale brain-targeting drug delivery strategies

L Han, C Jiang - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
Blood–brain barrier (BBB) strictly controls matter exchange between blood and brain, and
severely limits brain penetration of systemically administered drugs, resulting in ineffective …

Targeted tumour theranostics in mice via carbon quantum dots structurally mimicking large amino acids

S Li, W Su, H Wu, T Yuan, C Yuan, J Liu… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
Strategies for selectively imaging and delivering drugs to tumours typically leverage
differentially upregulated surface molecules on cancer cells. Here, we show that …

Understanding and targeting resistance mechanisms in NSCLC

J Rotow, TG Bivona - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The expanding spectrum of both established and candidate oncogenic driver mutations
identified in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), coupled with the increasing number of …

[HTML][HTML] Brain malignancies: Glioblastoma and brain metastases

TT Lah, M Novak, B Breznik - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Brain, the major organ of the central nervous system controls and processes most of body
activities. Therefore, the most aggressive brain tumor–glioblastoma and metastases from …

Blood-brain barrier opening in primary brain tumors with non-invasive MR-guided focused ultrasound: a clinical safety and feasibility study

T Mainprize, N Lipsman, Y Huang, Y Meng… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has long limited therapeutic access to brain tumor and
peritumoral tissue. In animals, MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) with intravenously …

Carcinoma–astrocyte gap junctions promote brain metastasis by cGAMP transfer

Q Chen, A Boire, X Jin, M Valiente, EE Er… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Brain metastasis represents a substantial source of morbidity and mortality in various
cancers, and is characterized by high resistance to chemotherapy. Here we define the role …

In vitro models of the blood–brain barrier: an overview of commonly used brain endothelial cell culture models and guidelines for their use

HC Helms, NJ Abbott, M Burek… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The endothelial cells lining the brain capillaries separate the blood from the brain
parenchyma. The endothelial monolayer of the brain capillaries serves both as a crucial …