Medical Xpress August 9, 2024
Houston Methodist researchers have discovered a more accurate and timely way to deliver life-saving drug therapies to the brain, laying the groundwork for more effective treatment of brain tumors and other neurological diseases.
In a study, titled “Electrokinetic convection-enhanced delivery for infusion into the brain from a hydrogel reservoir,” published in Communications Biology, investigators used an electric field to infuse medicine from a reservoir outside the brain to specific targets inside the brain.
This adds a new dimension to the 30-year-old process of injecting therapeutics into the brain through convection-enhanced delivery (CED), which uses continuous pressure over time to inject a fluid containing therapeutics into the brain. Because CED follows the path of least resistance, therapeutics don’t always hit the...
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