Nanoparticles carrying two drugs can cross the blood-brain barrier and shrink glioblastoma tumors

Nanoparticles carrying two drugs can cross the blood-brain barrier and shrink glioblastoma tumors

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https://phys.org/news/2018-05-nanoparticles-drugs-blood-brain-barrier-glioblastoma.html

In a study of mice, the researchers showed that the particles could shrink tumors and prevent them from growing back.

"What is unique here is we are not only able to use this mechanism to get across the blood-brain barrier and target tumors very effectively, we are using it to deliver this unique drug combination," says Paula Hammond, a David H. Koch Professor in Engineering, the head of MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering, and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.