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ReviewCommunications materials2025

Device-assisted strategies for drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier to treat glioblastoma.

Nassir Mokarram, Ayden Case, Nadia N Hossainy, Johnathan G Lyon, Tobey J MacDonald, Ravi Bellamkonda

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Review in Communications materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Nassir MokarramDepartment of Neurosurgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5828-7644
Ayden CaseTrinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC USA.
Nadia N HossainyDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA.ORCID 0009-0007-9260-1258
Johnathan G LyonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0926-231X
Tobey J MacDonaldDepartment of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA USA.
Ravi BellamkondaDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA.

Funding

Tumor 'tractor beam' for diffuse cancersR01CA271304 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI MOKARRAM-DORRI, NASSIR · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA271304
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood-brain barrier, essential for protecting the central nervous system, also restricts drug delivery to this region. Thus, delivering drugs across the blood-brain barrier is an active research area in immunology, oncology, and neurology; moreover, novel methods are urgently needed to expand therapeutic options for central nervous system pathologies. While previous strategies have focused on small molecules that modulate blood-brain barrier permeability or penetrate the barrier, there is an increased focus on biomedical devices-external or implanted-for improving drug delivery. Here, we review device-assisted drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier, emphasizing its application in glioblastoma, an aggressively malignant primary brain cancer in which the blood-brain barrier plays a central role. We examine the blood-brain barrier and its features in glioblastoma, emerging models for studying the blood-brain barrier, and device-assisted methods for crossing the blood-brain barrier. We conclude by presenting methods to monitor the blood-brain barrier and paradigms for combined cross-BBB drug delivery.

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BiomaterialsBlood-brain barrierCNS cancerTranslational research

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PMID39790893
PMCPMC11706785

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