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ReviewNanomedicine (London, England)2025

Emerging anti-inflammatory nanosystems targeted to the brain.

Arun Kumar Mahanta, Avinash Gothwal, Bivek Chaulagain, Chinenye Edith Muolokwu, Benjamin Tagoe, Babita Lamsal, Matheus Belin, Jagdish Singh

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Review in Nanomedicine (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Arun Kumar MahantaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, College of Health and Human Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
Avinash GothwalDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, College of Health and Human Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
Bivek ChaulagainDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, College of Health and Human Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
Chinenye Edith MuolokwuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, College of Health and Human Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
Benjamin TagoeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, College of Health and Human Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
Babita LamsalDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, College of Health and Human Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
Matheus BelinDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, College of Health and Human Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
Jagdish SinghDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, College of Health and Human Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.

Funding

Therapeutic Strategy to Treat Alzheimer's Disease by VGF Delivery into BrainR01AG083981 · NIA · NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Takahisa Kanekiyo, Jagdish Singh · 2023 to 2026
$2.4M
Enhanced APOE2 Expression into Brain for Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG068034 · NIA · NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KANEKIYO, TAKAHISA, SINGH, JAGDISH · 2021 to 2022
$1.6M
Enhanced APOE2 Expression into Brain for Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG068034 · NIA · NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KANEKIYO, TAKAHISA, SINGH, JAGDISH · 2024 to 2025
$1.0M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG068034NIA NIH HHS R01 AG083981NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG068034
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neuroinflammation hypothesis suggests that neuroinflammation plays an important role in the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Neuroinflammation is induced by several factors such as stimulatory signals derived from injured/dying cells, aggregated/modified proteins, and inflammatory mediators, including both proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory compounds produced by infiltrating immune cells such as microglia and astrocytes. Controlling the neuroinflammation in the brain might be a fruitful therapeutic strategy to manage the different kinds of neurodegenerative disorders. The delivery of anti-inflammatory agents to the brain is one of the challenging tasks in managing neuroinflammation due to the presence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which restricts the entry of the anti-inflammatory agent to the brain. With the advancement of nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanoparticle-based therapeutics are drawing great attention over conventional therapies, including high biocompatibility, more precise targeting, and the ability to cross the BBB. This review summarizes the recent progress in nanotechnology to deliver anti-inflammatory agents to the brain for the management of neurodegenerative disorders associated with neuroinflammation.

Indexed as

Anti-Inflammatory AgentsBrainDrug Delivery SystemsNanoparticlesNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuroinflammatory DiseasesAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierHumansNanomedicineNanotechnologyAnti-Inflammatory Agentsastrocyteblood-brain barriermicrogliananotherapeuticsneurodegenerative diseasesNeuroinflammation

Identifiers

PMID40856754
PMCPMC12582062

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