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ReviewCurrent drug delivery2025

The Blood-prostate Barrier: An Obstacle to Drug Delivery into the Prostate.

Yixuan Mou, Min Cao, Dahong Zhang

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Review in Current drug delivery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yixuan MouThe Second Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8235-2867
Min CaoThe Second Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Dahong ZhangThe Second Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood-prostate barrier (BPB), a non-static physical barrier, stands as an obstacle between the prostate stroma and the lumen of the prostate gland tube. The barrier has the ability to dynamically regulate and strictly control the mass exchange between the blood and the prostate, thereby limiting drug penetration into the prostate. The basement membrane, fibrous stromal layer, capillary endothelial cell, prostatic ductal epithelial cell, lipid layer, etc., have been confirmed to be involved in the composition of the barrier structure and altered membrane permeability mainly by regulating the size of paracellular ion pores. Various studies have been conducted to improve the efficiency of drug therapy for prostate diseases by changing the administration approaches, improving barrier permeability and increasing drug penetration. To gain a full understanding of BPB, the composition of BPB, the methodology for evaluating the permeability of BPB and alterations in barrier function under pathological conditions are summarized in this review. To find a shortcut for drug delivery across BPB, the biodistribution of drugs in the prostate and different methods of improving drug penetration across BPB are outlined. This review offers an applied perspective on recent advances in drug delivery across BPB.

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Drug Delivery SystemsProstateAnimalsHumansMalePermeabilityPharmaceutical PreparationsPharmaceutical PreparationsBlood-prostate barrierchemotherapeutic agents.drug deliverynanomaterialpermeabilityprostate diseases

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