Why We Can't Deliver Drugs to the Brain
Why your brain says no to drugs: Meet the blood-brain barrier. SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! http://ow.ly/rt5IE My Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill | Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill...
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This is Elise. She suffers from a brain tumor, which causes blurred vision and confusion.But when doctors try and treat brain cancers and other disorders, the brain blocks roughly95% of medicine taken orally or intravenously.That’s a problem! So what is going on inside your brain? And why is it just ignoring medicine?In your body, you have (on average) 5 litres of blood that travels through 96,000 kilometresof blood vessels every day and it’s full of different types of cells, nutrients, hormones,and gases.In their journey, they travel to your brain and come face to face with the Blood BrainBarrier. It’s what’s stopping that 95% of medicine getting in – it’s tough!It controls what is and what is not allowed to leave your blood supply and enter yourbrain.The...
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This is Elise. She suffers from a brain tumor, which causes blurred vision and confusion.But when doctors try and treat brain cancers and other disorders, the brain blocks roughly95% of medicine taken orally or intravenously.That’s a problem! So what is going on inside your brain? And why is it just ignoring medicine?In your body, you have (on average) 5 litres of blood that travels through 96,000 kilometresof blood vessels every day and it’s full of different types of cells, nutrients, hormones,and gases.In their journey, they travel to your brain and come face to face with the Blood BrainBarrier. It’s what’s stopping that 95% of medicine getting in – it’s tough!It controls what is and what is not allowed to leave your blood supply and enter yourbrain.The...
