Brain Infusion Articles & Analysis
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In addition, the volunteers were randomly divided into three groups and given a single infusion of either 40 or 120 milligrams of Revacept or a placebo. The day after the procedure, the patients were examined by magnetic resonance imaging for signs of small strokes triggered by the treatment and then followed up for one year. ...
Kurve Therapeutic’s patented intranasal drug delivery technology, Controlled Particle Dispersion® (CPD), has been shown to bypass the blood-brain barrier, delivering 30x more medication directly to the brain than infusions. Marc Giroux, Kurve Therapeutics CEO and founder said: “An IV infusion manages to deliver ...
The main obstacle in treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s has been penetrating the blood-brain barrier (BBB). In preliminary studies, Kurve’s patented Controlled Particle Dispersion® technology has been shown to bypass the blood-brain barrier and was able to deliver up to 30x more medication directly to the ...
For these procedures, two CMC devices have been placed in each patient using conventional neurosurgical stereotactic techniques. A chemotherapy has been infused along with an MRI visible tracer into tumor and/or tumor-infiltrated brain tissue via the microcatheters for up to 96 hours. Intermittent MRI monitoring has shown that the infusions have ...
But when it comes to treating brain tumors, traditional methods do not usually work. The brain protects itself from toxins and other agents in the rest of the body and the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) allows certain elements to get into the brain, while keeping others out – including chemotherapy and anti-cancer drugs. ...