HIFU with microbubbles opens up BBB for loco-regional topotecan delivery into brain

A Molotkov, P Carberry, M Dolan, S Joseph… - 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
1222 Introduction: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary adult brain malignancy
with an extremely poor prognosis and a median survival of fewer than 2 years. A key reason …

[HTML][HTML] Real-time positron emission tomography evaluation of topotecan brain kinetics after ultrasound-mediated blood–brain barrier permeability

A Molotkov, P Carberry, MA Dolan, S Joseph… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary adult brain malignancy with an extremely
poor prognosis and a median survival of fewer than two years. A key reason for this high …

Focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening increases delivery and efficacy of etoposide for glioblastoma treatment

HJ Wei, PS Upadhyayula, AN Pouliopoulos… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating disease. With the current treatment of surgery
followed by chemoradiation, outcomes remain poor, with median survival of only 15 months …

[HTML][HTML] Blood-brain barrier disruption and delivery of irinotecan in a rat model using a clinical transcranial MRI-guided focused ultrasound system

N McDannold, Y Zhang, JG Supko, C Power, T Sun… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
We investigated controlled blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption using a low-frequency
clinical transcranial MRI-guided focused ultrasound (TcMRgFUS) device and evaluated …

Multiple treatments with liposomal doxorubicin and ultrasound-induced disruption of blood–tumor and blood–brain barriers improve outcomes in a rat glioma model

M Aryal, N Vykhodtseva, YZ Zhang, J Park… - Journal of controlled …, 2013 - Elsevier
The blood–brain-barrier (BBB) prevents the transport of most anticancer agents to the
central nervous system and restricts delivery to infiltrating brain tumors. The heterogeneous …

Blood-brain barrier disruption with focused ultrasound enhances delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs for glioblastoma treatment

HL Liu, MY Hua, PY Chen, PC Chu, CH Pan, HW Yang… - Radiology, 2010 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of using focused ultrasound to enhance delivery of 1,
3-bis (2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) to glioblastomas in rats with induced tumors and …

[HTML][HTML] Focused ultrasound and microbubbles-mediated drug delivery to brain tumor

SK Wu, CL Tsai, Y Huang, K Hynynen - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The presence of blood–brain barrier (BBB) and/or blood–brain–tumor barriers (BBTB) is one
of the main obstacles to effectively deliver therapeutics to our central nervous system (CNS); …

Mechanisms of enhanced drug delivery in brain metastases with focused ultrasound-induced blood–tumor barrier disruption

CD Arvanitis, V Askoxylakis, Y Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Blood–brain/blood–tumor barriers (BBB and BTB) and interstitial transport may constitute
major obstacles to the transport of therapeutics in brain tumors. In this study, we examined …

CTNI-37. REPEATED OPENING OF THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER WITH THE SKULL-IMPLANTABLE SONOCLOUD-9 (SC9) DEVICE: PHASE 1 TRIAL OF NAB …

AM Sonabend, A Gould, Y Luan, Y Hou… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a major impediment to pharmacological
treatment of gliomas. Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound with concomitant administration of …

Focused ultrasonography-mediated blood-brain barrier disruption in the enhancement of delivery of brain tumor therapies

MGZ Ghali, VM Srinivasan, P Kan - World neurosurgery, 2019 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma is the most common intracranial malignancy in adults and carries a poor
prognosis. Chemotherapeutic treatment figures prominently in the management of primary …