Permeability of the blood-brain barrier in mice
The blood-brain barrier plays an essential role in protecting the central nervous system from harmful bacteria, toxins, and other blood-borne pathogens.
Composed of a tight row of…
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Team engineers new way to get medication past blood-brain barrier: UT Dallas…
A University of Texas at Dallas-led team of researchers has developed a new technique to open the blood-brain barrier temporarily to deliver medication to the brain.
Getting medication past…
Novel Molecule Against Neuroinflammation Traverses the Blood-brain Barrier
says Peter King, M.D., and Burt Nabors, M.D., professors in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology.
The cytokines and…
Magnetic field from MRI affects focused-ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier
MRI-guided focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles can open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and allow therapeutic drugs to reach the diseased brain location under the guidance of MRI. It…
Omega-3s may hold key to unlocking blood-brain barrier
Spectacular images of a molecule that shuttles omega-3 fatty acids into the brain may open a doorway for delivering neurological therapeutics to the brain.
"We've managed to obtain a…