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SUBMITTER: Bukari B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7277349 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biomedicines 20200514 5
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a highly specialised network of blood vessels that effectively separates the brain environment from the circulatory system. While there are benefits, in terms of keeping pathogens from entering the brain, the BBB also complicates treatments of brain pathologies by preventing efficient delivery of macromolecular drugs to diseased brain tissue. Although current non-invasive strategies of therapeutics delivery into the brain, such as focused ultrasound and nanoparti ...[more]