A blood–brain barrier overview on structure, function, impairment, and biomarkers of integrity

H Kadry, B Noorani, L Cucullo - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2020 - Springer
The blood–brain barrier is playing a critical role in controlling the influx and efflux of
biological substances essential for the brain's metabolic activity as well as neuronal function …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for brain imaging and drug delivery

R Qiao, C Fu, H Forgham, I Javed, X Huang… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Central nervous system (CNS) disorders affect as many as 1.5 billion people globally. The
limited delivery of most imaging and therapeutic agents into the brain is a major challenge …

Engineered human blood–brain barrier microfluidic model for vascular permeability analyses

C Hajal, GS Offeddu, Y Shin, S Zhang, O Morozova… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) greatly restricts the entry of biological and engineered
therapeutic molecules into the brain. Due to challenges in translating results from animal …

3D self-organized microvascular model of the human blood-brain barrier with endothelial cells, pericytes and astrocytes

M Campisi, Y Shin, T Osaki, C Hajal, V Chiono… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) regulates molecular trafficking, protects against pathogens,
and prevents efficient drug delivery to the brain. Models to date failed to reproduce the …

Hypoxia-enhanced Blood-Brain Barrier Chip recapitulates human barrier function and shuttling of drugs and antibodies

TE Park, N Mustafaoglu, A Herland… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The high selectivity of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts delivery of many
pharmaceuticals and therapeutic antibodies to the central nervous system. Here, we …

Human iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier chips enable disease modeling and personalized medicine applications

GD Vatine, R Barrile, MJ Workman, S Sances… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) tightly regulates the entry of solutes from blood into the brain
and is disrupted in several neurological diseases. Using Organ-Chip technology, we created …

High-throughput organ-on-chip platform with integrated programmable fluid flow and real-time sensing for complex tissue models in drug development workflows

H Azizgolshani, JR Coppeta, EM Vedula, EE Marr… - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Drug development suffers from a lack of predictive and human-relevant in vitro models.
Organ-on-chip (OOC) technology provides advanced culture capabilities to generate …

Endothelial cell metabolism

G Eelen, P de Zeeuw, L Treps, U Harjes… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Endothelial cells (ECs) are more than inert blood vessel lining material. Instead, they are
active players in the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) both in health and (life …

TEER measurement techniques for in vitro barrier model systems

B Srinivasan, AR Kolli, MB Esch… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Transepithelial/transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) is a widely accepted
quantitative technique to measure the integrity of tight junction dynamics in cell culture …

A perfused human blood–brain barrier on-a-chip for high-throughput assessment of barrier function and antibody transport

NR Wevers, DG Kasi, T Gray, KJ Wilschut… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Receptor-mediated transcytosis is one of the major routes for drug delivery of
large molecules into the brain. The aim of this study was to develop a novel model of the …