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Temporary disruption of the blood-brain barrier by use of ultrasound and microbubbles: safety and efficacy evaluation in rhesus macaques

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents entry of most drugs into the brain and is a major hurdle to the use of drugs for brain tumors and other central nervous system disorders. Work in small animals has shown that ultrasound combined with an intravenously circulating microbubble agent can temporaril...

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Main Authors: McDannold, Nathan, Arvanitis, Costas D., Vykhodtseva, Natalia, Livingstone, Margaret S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533365/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22552291
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-0128
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