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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound blood–brain barrier opening and aducanumab in Alzheimer's disease

AR Rezai, PF D'Haese, V Finomore… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Antiamyloid antibodies have been used to reduce cerebral amyloid-beta (Aβ) load in
patients with Alzheimer's disease. We applied focused ultrasound with each of six monthly …

BBB opening with focused ultrasound in nonhuman primates and Parkinson's disease patients: Targeted AAV vector delivery and PET imaging

J Blesa, JA Pineda-Pardo, K Inoue, C Gasca-Salas… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Intracerebral vector delivery in nonhuman primates has been a major challenge. We report
successful blood-brain barrier opening and focal delivery of adeno-associated virus …

Extensive frontal focused ultrasound mediated blood–brain barrier opening for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: A proof-of-concept study

SH Park, K Baik, S Jeon, WS Chang, BS Ye… - Translational …, 2021 - Springer
Background Focused ultrasound (FUS)-mediated blood–brain barrier (BBB) opening has
shown efficacy in removal of amyloid plaque and improvement of cognitive functions in …

Striatal blood–brain barrier opening in Parkinson's disease dementia: a pilot exploratory study

JA Pineda‐Pardo, C Gasca‐Salas… - Movement …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Parkinson's disease (PD) exhibits a high prevalence of dementia as disease
severity and duration progress. Focused ultrasound (FUS) has been applied for transient …

Blood–brain barrier opening of the default mode network in Alzheimer's disease with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound

Y Meng, M Goubran, JS Rabin, M McSweeney, J Ottoy… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain but is also an important obstacle for the
effective delivery of therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative …

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 …

Safety evaluation of a clinical focused ultrasound system for neuronavigation guided blood-brain barrier opening in non-human primates

AN Pouliopoulos, N Kwon, G Jensen, A Meaney… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
An emerging approach with potential in improving the treatment of neurodegenerative
diseases and brain tumors is the use of focused ultrasound (FUS) to bypass the blood–brain …

A comparative study of the effects of Aducanumab and scanning ultrasound on amyloid plaques and behavior in the APP23 mouse model of Alzheimer disease

G Leinenga, WK Koh, J Götz - Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2021 - Springer
Background Aducanumab is an anti-amyloid-β (Aβ) antibody that achieved reduced amyloid
pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) trials; however, it is controversial whether it also …