Nasal delivery of antibodies helps treat symptoms of a stroke in mice PNASNews
Prior research has also shown that certain antibodies can help the brain heal by curbing the activity of Nogo-A, a compound found to inhibit brain healing. Unfortunately, getting the antibodies to the brain has proven difficult because they are too large to pass through the. In this new effort, the researchers took a new approach and investigated putting the antibodies in a nasal spray.
Past studies have suggested that some drugs might be able to sneak past the blood brain barrier by taking a different path into the brain—traversing long-fibered nerve cells that stretch from passages in the upper part of the nose directly into the brain. To find out if the same might be true for antibodies, the researchers created a nasal spray for use on mice with induced strokes.
The strokes induced in the mice were all identical and all involved killing brain cells used to control the front paws. Each of the mice was tested on its ability to carry out a certain task both before and after the stroke. The researchers then administered theThe researchers found that those given the
saw task improvements of 60% on average, while those given a placebo saw improvements of just 30%. The researchers also found that new nerve fibers had sprouted in the brains of the treated mice.Correa, Daphne et al, Intranasal delivery of full-length anti-Nogo-A antibody: A potential alternative route for therapeutic antibodiesto central nervous system targets,
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