News tagged with blood brain barrier
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'Green' nanoparticles, that may enhance medication delivery and improve MRI performance
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have shown a new category of "green" nanoparticles comprised of a non-toxic, protein-based nanotechnology that can non-invasively cross the blood brain barrier and is capable ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 02, 2012 |
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Trojan horse bacteria use nanobodies to conquer sleeping sickness
Sleeping sickness, caused by the trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei, is transmitted to humans (and animals) via the bite of the tsetse fly. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Microbial Cell Factories ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Scientists cultivate human brain's most ubiquitous cell in lab dish
Pity the lowly astrocyte, the most common cell in the human nervous system.
May 22, 2011 |
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Trojan Horse ploy to sneak protective drug into brains of stroke patients
Scientists are reporting development of a long-sought method with the potential for getting medication through a biological barrier that surrounds the brain, where it may limit the brain damage caused by stroke. Their approach ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 10, 2010 |
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New study gives hope for new class of Alzheimer's disease drugs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding a drug that can cross the blood-brain barrier is the bane of drug development for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders of the brain. A new Penn study, published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 18, 2010 |
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Key to blood-brain barrier opens way for treating Alzheimer's and stroke
While the blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain from harmful chemicals occurring naturally in the blood, it also obstructs the transport of drugs to the brain. In an article in Nature scientists at Karolinska Instit ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Scientists use blood-brain barrier as therapy delivery system
The blood brain barrier is generally considered an obstacle to delivering therapies from the bloodstream to the brain. However, University of Iowa researchers have discovered a way to turn the blood vessels ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Exercise protects against damage causing leakage in the blood-brain barrier
Regular exercise can prevent the disruption of the blood brain barrier that normally occurs with a dose of methamphetamine comparable to that used by heavy meth users.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 21, 2009 |
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