Drug Delivery to the Brain: Recent Advances and Unmet Challenges

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Abstract

Brain cancers and neurodegenerative diseases are on the rise, treatments for central nervous system (CNS) diseases remain limited. Despite the significant advancement in drug development technology with emerging biopharmaceuticals like gene therapy or recombinant protein, the clinical translational rate of such biopharmaceuticals to treat CNS disease is extremely poor. The blood–brain barrier (BBB), which separates the brain from blood and protects the CNS microenvironment to maintain essential neuronal functions, poses the greatest challenge for CNS drug delivery. Many strategies have been developed over the years which include local disruption of BBB via physical and chemical methods, and drug transport across BBB via transcytosis by targeting some endogenous proteins expressed on brain-capillary. Drug delivery to brain is an ever-evolving topic, although there were multiple review articles in literature, an update is warranted due to continued growth and new innovations of research on this topic. Thus, this review is an attempt to highlight the recent strategies employed to overcome challenges of CNS drug delivery while emphasizing the necessity of investing more efforts in CNS drug delivery technologies parallel to drug development.

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Bhunia, S., Kolishetti, N., Vashist, A., Yndart Arias, A., Brooks, D., & Nair, M. (2023, December 1). Drug Delivery to the Brain: Recent Advances and Unmet Challenges. Pharmaceutics. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15122658

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