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The innovation that gets an Alzheimer’s drug through the blood-brain barrier. Focused ultrasound is just one strategy researchers are using to get drugs into the brain.
Focused ultrasound is just one strategy researchers are using to get drugs into the brain.
Cutting the amount of time needed to clear these plaques might help slow the memory loss and cognitive problems that define the disease. When the waves hit the microbubbles, the bubbles begin to expand and contract, physically pushing apart the tightly packed cells that line the brain’s capillaries. Rather than mechanically pushing the barrier apart, Roche, a pharmaceutical company, has developed a technology called “Brainshuttle” that ferries drugs across it by binding to receptors on the cells that line the vessel walls.
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