2B-Trans technology: targeted drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier

Methods Mol Biol. 2008:437:161-75. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-210-6_8.

Abstract

Drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a major obstacle for the development of effective treatments of many central nervous system disorders. Sophisticated cell culture models of the BBB have helped us to identify, characterize, and validate a novel targeted drug delivery technology, designated 2B-Trans, for the receptor-mediated uptake and transport of drugs across the BBB. This paper describes in great detail how such a BBB cell culture model should be prepared and handled, and applied for the use of targeted drug delivery across the BBB.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Astrocytes / metabolism
  • Blood-Brain Barrier / drug effects*
  • Brain*
  • Coculture Techniques
  • Drug Delivery Systems*
  • Humans
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / administration & dosage
  • Receptors, Drug / genetics
  • Receptors, Drug / metabolism*

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations
  • Receptors, Drug