• Feasibility study of the permeability and uptake of mesoporous silica nanoparticles across the blood-brain barrier 

      Baghirov, Habib; Karaman, Didem Sen; Viitala, Tapani; Duchanoy, Alain; Lou, Yan-Ru; Mamaeva, Veronika; Pryazhnikov, Evgeny; Khiroug, Leonard; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange; Sahlgren, Cecilia; Rosenholm, Jessica M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Drug delivery into the brain is impeded by the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) that filters out the vast majority of drugs after systemic administration. In this work, we assessed the transport, uptake and cytotoxicity of promising ...
    • Improved drug delivery to brain metastases by peptide-mediated permeabilization of the blood-brain barrier 

      Aasen, Synnøve Nymark; Espedal, Heidi; Holte, Christopher Florian; Keunen, Olivier; Karlsen, Tine Veronica; Tenstad, Olav; Maherally, Zaynah; Miletic, Hrvoje; Hoang, Tuyen; Eikeland, Anne Vaag; Baghirov, Habib; Olberg, Dag Erlend; Pilkington, Geoffrey John; Sarkar, Gobinda; Jenkins, Robert B.; Sundstrøm, Terje; Bjerkvig, Rolf; Thorsen, Frits (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Patients with melanoma have a high risk of developing brain metastasis, which is associated with a dismal prognosis. During early stages of metastasis development, the blood–brain barrier (BBB) is likely intact, which ...
    • Labeling nanoparticles: Dye leakage and altered cellular uptake 

      Snipstad, Sofie; Hak, Sjoerd; Baghirov, Habib; Sulheim, Einar; Mørch, Ýrr Asbjørg; Lelu, Sylvie; von Haartman, Eva; Bäck, Marcus; Nilsson, Peter R; Klymchenko, Andrey S; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange; Åslund, Andreas (Journal article, 2016)
      In vitro and in vivo behavior of nanoparticles (NPs) is often studied by tracing the NPs with fluorescent dyes. This requires stable incorporation of dyes within the NPs, as dye leakage may give a wrong interpretation of ...
    • Nanoparticle uptake by brain endothelial cells and focused ultrasound-mediated transport across the blood-brain barrier 

      Baghirov, Habib (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:3, Doctoral thesis, 2016)
      More and more people in the world suffer from various brain diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and brain cancer. One of the reasons it is so difficult to treat them is the blood-brain barrier (BBB) ...
    • Quantification and Qualitative Effects of Different PEGylations on Poly(butyl cyanoacrylate) Nanoparticles 

      Åslund, Andreas; Sulheim, Einar; Snipstad, Sofie; von Haartman, Eva; Baghirov, Habib; Starr, Nichola; Løvmo, Mia Kvåle; Lelu, Sylvie; Scurr, David; Davies, Catharina De Lange; Schmid, Ruth; Mørch, Yrr Asbjørg (Journal article, 2017)
      Protein adsorption on nanoparticles (NPs) used in nanomedicine leads to opsonization and activation of the complement system in blood, which substantially reduces the blood circulation time of NPs. The most commonly used ...
    • The effect of poly(ethylene glycol) coating and monomer type on poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticle interactions with lipid monolayers and cells 

      Baghirov, Habib; Melikishvili, Sopio; Mørch, Yrr Asbjørg; Sulheim, Einar; Åslund, Andreas; Hianik, Tibor; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange (Journal article, 2017)
      The interaction of the promising drug carriers poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles (PACA NPs) with lipid monolayers modeling the cell membrane and with RBE4 immortalized rat brain endothelial cells was compared to ...
    • Ultrasound-mediated delivery and distribution of polymeric nanoparticles in the normal brain parenchyma of a metastatic brain tumour model 

      Baghirov, Habib; Snipstad, Sofie; Sulheim, Einar; Berg, Sigrid; Hansen, Rune; Thorsen, Frits; Mørch, Ýrr Asbjørg; Davies, Catharina de Lange; Åslund, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The treatment of brain diseases is hindered by the blood-brain barrier (BBB) preventing most drugs from entering the brain. Focused ultrasound (FUS) with microbubbles can open the BBB safely and reversibly. Systemic drug ...