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Targeting the Choroid Plexus-CSF-Brain Nexus Using Peptides Identified by Phage Display

Year: 2010

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Drug delivery to the central nervous system requires the use of specific portals to enable drug entry into the brain and, as such, there is a growing need to identify processes that can enable drug transfer across both blood-brain and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers. Phage display is a powerful combinatorial technique that identifies specific peptides that can confer new activities to inactive particles. Identification of these peptides is directly dependent on the specific screening strategies used for their selection and retrieval. This chapter describes three selection strategies, which can be used to identify peptides that target the choroid plexus (CP) directly or for drug translocation across the CP and into cerebrospinal fluid.

Source: Methods in molecular biology

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-938-3_25

Authors: Andrew Baird, Brian P. Eliceiri, Ana Maria Gonzalez, Conrad E. Johanson, Wendy Leadbeater, Edward G. Stopa

Institutions: University of California San Diego, University of Birmingham, Brown University

Language: English

Topic: Barrier Structure and Function Studies

Subfield: Neurology

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, National Institute of General Medical Sciences