Journal of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials
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Journal

Journal of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials


Volume
& Issue

Volume 8, Issue 1


Published
on

January 1, 2020


Pages

31-43


DOI

Article

Nano Drug Delivery Systems Targeting Microglia for the Treatment of Brain Disorders

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Authors

Salma Hosseiny Affiliation:
Nanomedicine Lab, Center for Materials Science, University of Science and Technology (UST), Zewail City of Science and Technology, 12578, Giza, Egypt
, Asmaa Reda Affiliation:
Nanomedicine Lab, Center for Materials Science, University of Science and Technology (UST), Zewail City of Science and Technology, 12578, Giza, Egypt; Molecular and cellular Biology Division, Zoology department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt
and Ibrahim M. El-Sherbiny* Affiliation:
Nanomedicine Laboratory, Center for Materials Science, Zewail City of Science and Technology, 6 of October, 12578, Giza, Egypt


Abstract

Nanomedicine is a field where the progression of nanotechnology is recruited to serve health and medicine. It has opened new avenues to understand and tackle many sorts of interactions between the living tissues, which were undoable with macroscopic materials. Nanomedicine took neuroscience to a next era, where targeting many neurological and psychological diseases became no longer a challenging task. Many recent types of nanoparticles became able to cross the blood brain barrier and targeting specific brain areas. Brain disorders including Alzheimer, Parkinson, schizophrenia and others were found to be strongly connected to neuroinflammation, and accordingly to immune cells of the central nervous system, microglia that play a key role in neuroinflammation. However, their mechanisms of action are not fully understood, and hence, recent studies are competing to solve this mystery using nanoparticles as a helping hand. In this review, we summarized the use of nano drug delivery systems to target microglia in different neurodevelopmental and psychological disorders aiming that research could take a step further towards achieving improved brain targeted drug delivery.


Keywords

Nanoparticles, Drug delivery system, Targeting Microglia, Brain Disorders


Citation

Hosseiny, S., Reda, A., & El-Sherbiny, I. M. (2020). Nano drug delivery systems targeting microglia for the treatment of brain disorders. Journal of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, 8(1), 31–43. https://doi.org/10.18576/jnam/080103

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