The choroid plexus: a missing link in our understanding of brain development and function

NR Saunders, KM Dziegielewska… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Studies of the choroid plexus lag behind those of the more widely known blood-brain barrier,
despite a much longer history. This review has two overall aims. The first is to outline long …

Challenges of peptide and protein drug delivery by oral route: Current strategies to improve the bioavailability

S Verma, UK Goand, A Husain… - Drug development …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advancement in biotechnology provided a notable expansion of peptide and protein
therapeutics, used as antigens, vaccines, hormones. It has a prodigious potential to treat a …

Experimental approaches for manipulating choroid plexus epithelial cells

A Jang, MK Lehtinen - Fluids and barriers of the CNS, 2022 - Springer
Choroid plexus (ChP) epithelial cells are crucial for the function of the blood-cerebrospinal
fluid barrier (BCSFB) in the developing and mature brain. The ChP is considered the primary …

Advances in designing of polymeric micelles for biomedical application in brain related diseases

J Kaur, M Gulati, B Kapoor, NK Jha, PK Gupta… - Chemico-Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, unique physicochemical properties of amphiphilic block copolymers have
been utilized to design the polymeric micelles for brain-specific delivery of drugs, proteins …

The interplay between T helper cells and brain barriers in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis

G Angelini, A Bani, G Constantin… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB) represent
two complex structures protecting the central nervous system (CNS) against potentially …

Choroid plexus-derived extracellular vesicles exhibit brain targeting characteristics

MJ Pauwels, J Xie, A Ceroi, S Balusu, J Castelein… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
The brain is protected against invading organisms and other unwanted substances by tightly
regulated barriers. However, these central nervous system (CNS) barriers impede the …

Special delEVery: extracellular vesicles as promising delivery platform to the brain

MJ Pauwels, C Vandendriessche, RE Vandenbroucke - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The treatment of central nervous system (CNS) pathologies is severely hampered by the
presence of tightly regulated CNS barriers that restrict drug delivery to the brain. An …

[HTML][HTML] Tissues: the unexplored frontier of antibody mediated immunity

NE Webb, B Bernshtein, G Alter - Current opinion in virology, 2021 - Elsevier
Pathogen-specific immunity evolves in the context of the infected tissue. However, current
immune correlates analyses and vaccine efficacy metrics are based on immune functions …

Effect of the size of protein therapeutics on brain pharmacokinetics following systematic administration

HY Chang, S Wu, Y Li, L Guo, Y Li, DK Shah - The AAPS journal, 2022 - Springer
Here, we have investigated the effect of size of protein therapeutics on brain
pharmacokinetics (PK) following systemic administration in rats. All tested proteins were …

In vitro models of the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier and their applications in the development and research of (Neuro) Pharmaceuticals

F Dabbagh, H Schroten, C Schwerk - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The pharmaceutical research sector has been facing the challenge of neurotherapeutics
development and its inherited high-risk and high-failure-rate nature for decades. This hurdle …