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Blood-brain barrier?

 
 
Reply Tue 30 Nov, 2004 02:48 pm
What sort of applications might be developed for a substance capabale of acting as a carrier across the blood-brain barrier?
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 30 Nov, 2004 02:56 pm
Something that goes in through one's eyes?
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Tue 30 Nov, 2004 02:58 pm
Chemotherapy agents for cancer.
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primergray
 
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Reply Tue 30 Nov, 2004 03:56 pm
Definitely. They'd have to be tested carefully, first, though, given how toxic they can be.

Any others?
Any specific agents? (like, gee, this stuff would be really great, if only we could get it into the brain...)
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Lady J
 
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Reply Wed 1 Dec, 2004 01:25 am
ANY amino acid can cross the blood brain barrier. Some are more dominant than others. In a recent study about the kinetics of amino acid transport at the blood brain barrier used an in situ brain perfusion technique with the following results:

The right cerebral hemisphere of the rat was perfused in situ by retrograde infusion of HCO3 saline or blood into the right external carotid artery. Infusion rate was adjusted to minimize the contribution of systemic blood to flow in the hemisphere. During perfusion with whole or artificial blood, regional cerebral blood flow and blood volume were comparable to respective values in the conscious rat, whereas perfusion with HCO3 saline increased regional flow three- to fourfold due to the low viscosity of the saline perfusate. Perfusion with whole blood for 300 S or with HCO3 saline for 60 S did not alter the permeability of the blood-brain barrier. Cerebrovascular permeability coefficients of eight nonelectrolytes ranged from 10(-8) to 10(-4) cm X S-1 and were directly proportional to the octanol-water partition coefficient of the solute. Thus the in situ brain perfusion technique is a sensitive new method to study cerebrovascular transfer in the rat and permits absolute control of perfusate composition.

Was there any specific amino acid or medication you were looking at?
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primergray
 
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Reply Wed 1 Dec, 2004 07:48 am
Nope. I wasn't considering amino acids. My query concerns using a molecular transporter to circumvent the blood brain barrier.
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