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ArticleDrug delivery2020

Engineering of fluorescent or photoactive Trojan probes for detection and eradication of β-Amyloids.

Amal A Aziz, Rafat A Siddiqui, Zareen Amtul

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Article in Drug delivery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Amal A AzizSir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School, Thames Valley District School Board, London, Canada.
Rafat A SiddiquiNutrition Science and Food Chemistry Laboratory, Agricultural Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, USA.
Zareen AmtulDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.
University of Windsor · CAVirginia State University · USWilfrid Laurier University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trojan horse technology institutes a potentially promising strategy to bring together a diagnostic or cell-based drug design and a delivery platform. It provides the opportunity to re-engineer a novel multimodal, neurovascular detection probe, or medicine to fuse with blood-brain barrier (BBB) molecular Trojan horse. In Alzheimer's disease (AD) this could allow the targeted delivery of detection or therapeutic probes across the BBB to the sites of plaques and tangles development to image or decrease amyloid load, enhance perivascular Aβ clearance, and improve cerebral blood flow, owing principally to the significantly improved cerebral permeation. A Trojan horse can also be equipped with photosensitizers, nanoparticles, quantum dots, or fluorescent molecules to function as multiple targeting theranostic compounds that could be activated following changes in disease-specific processes of the diseased tissue such as pH and protease activity, or exogenous stimuli such as, light. This concept review theorizes the use of receptor-mediated transport-based platforms to transform such novel ideas to engineer systemic and smart Trojan detection or therapeutic probes to advance the neurodegenerative field.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAntibodies, MonoclonalBiological TransportBlood-Brain BarrierBrainDrug Delivery SystemsHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationPhotosensitizing AgentsReceptors, TransferrinSinglet OxygenAmyloid beta-PeptidesAntibodies, MonoclonalPhotosensitizing AgentsReceptors, TransferrinSinglet OxygenAlzheimer’s diseaseblood-brain barrierphotosensitizerquantum dotssmart drugsTrojan horseβ − amyloid

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PMCPMC8216438
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