Journal
NANOMEDICINE
Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages 833-849Publisher
FUTURE MEDICINE LTD
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.16.15
Keywords
blood-brain barrier; brain; drug delivery; imaging; nanoparticles; siRNA
Funding
- MINECO, Spain [BFU2011-30161-C02-01, BFU2014-59009-P]
- CYTED [214RT0482]
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The poor access of therapeutic drugs and genetic material into the central nervous system due to the presence of the blood-brain barrier often limits the development of effective noninvasive treatments and diagnoses of neurological disorders. Moreover, the delivery of genetic material into neuronal cells remains a challenge because of the intrinsic difficulty in transfecting this cell type. Nanotechnology has arisen as a promising tool to provide solutions for this problem. This review will cover the different approaches that have been developed to deliver drugs and genetic material efficiently to the central nervous system as well as the main nanomaterials used to image the central nervous system and diagnose its disorders.
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