Get drugs to the brain with bubbles

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3079, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For the first time, doctors have shown that temporarily opening the protective baffler of the human brain helps to boost the delivery of cancer medication to brain tumors. The therapy, which uses tiny bubbles and ultrasound to let chemotherapy drugs into the brain, could be used to treat Alzheimer's disease and stroke in the future. People's brain are protected by a barrier of cells, which act to stop potentially harmful things from getting in. But this blood-brain barrier also blocks medicines, making it difficult for doctors to treat brain diseases with drugs.