Griffith Jessica I, Rathi Sneha, Zhang Wenqiu, Zhang Wenjuan, Drewes Lester R, Sarkaria Jann N, Elmquist William F
Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812, USA.
Pharmaceutics. 2020 Dec 11;12(12):1205. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12121205.
Effective treatments for brain tumors remain one of the most urgent and unmet needs in modern oncology. This is due not only to the presence of the neurovascular unit/blood-brain barrier (NVU/BBB) but also to the heterogeneity of barrier alteration in the case of brain tumors, which results in what is referred to as the blood-tumor barrier (BTB). Herein, we discuss this heterogeneity, how it contributes to the failure of novel pharmaceutical treatment strategies, and why a "whole brain" approach to the treatment of brain tumors might be beneficial. We discuss various methods by which these obstacles might be overcome and assess how these strategies are progressing in the clinic. We believe that by approaching brain tumor treatment from this perspective, a new paradigm for drug delivery to brain tumors might be established.
脑肿瘤的有效治疗方法仍然是现代肿瘤学中最紧迫且未得到满足的需求之一。这不仅是因为神经血管单元/血脑屏障(NVU/BBB)的存在,还因为脑肿瘤情况下屏障改变的异质性,这导致了所谓的血瘤屏障(BTB)。在此,我们讨论这种异质性、它如何导致新型药物治疗策略的失败,以及为什么采用“全脑”方法治疗脑肿瘤可能有益。我们讨论了克服这些障碍的各种方法,并评估这些策略在临床上的进展情况。我们相信,从这个角度来探讨脑肿瘤治疗,可能会建立一种向脑肿瘤给药的新范式。
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