Title
Nanoparticles as alternative strategies for drug delivery to the Alzheimer brain: Electron microscopy ultrastructural analysis
Date Issued
01 December 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aliev G.
Daza J.
Herrera A.
Esparza M.
Morales L.
Echeverria V.
Bachurin S.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Publisher(s)
Bentham Science Publishers B.V.
Abstract
One of the biggest problems and challenges for the development of new drugs and treatment strategies against Alzheimer Disease (AD) is the crossing of target drugs into the blood brain barrier. The use of nanoparticles in drug delivery therapy holds much promise in targeting remote tissues, and as a result many studies have attempted to study the ultrastructural localization of nanoparticles in various tissues. However, there are currently no in vivo studies demonstrating the ultrastructural distribution of nanoparticles in the brain. The aim of this study was to address how intraperitoneal injection of silver nanoparticles in the brain leads to leaking on the inter-endothelial contact and luminal plasma membrane, thus elucidating the possibility of penetrating into the most affected areas in the Alzheimer brain (vascular endothelium, perivascular, neuronal and glial cells). Our results show that the silver nanoparticles reached the brain and were found in hippocampal areas, indicating that they can be conjugated and used to deliver the drugs into the cell cytoplasm of the damaged brain cells. The present study can be useful for the development of novel drug delivering therapy and useful in understanding the delivery, distribution and effects of silver nanoparticles in AD brain tissue at cellular and subcellular level.
Start page
1235
End page
1242
Volume
14
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Neurociencias Nano-procesos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84946765614
PubMed ID
Source
CNS and Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets
ISSN of the container
18715273
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