title: Phage display: development of nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery to the brain.
abstract: The blood brain barrier represents a formidable obstacle for the transport of most systematically administered neurodiagnostics and neurotherapeutics to the brain. Phage display is a high throughput screening strategy that can be used for the construction of nanomaterial peptide libraries. These libraries can be screened for finding brain targeting peptide ligands. Surface functionalization of a variety of nanocarriers with these brain homing peptides is a sophisticated way to develop nanobiotechnology-based drug delivery platforms that are able to cross the blood brain barrier. These efficient drug delivery systems raise our hopes for the diagnosis and treatment of various brain disorders in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Babak
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bakhshinejad
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Marzieh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karimi
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khalaj-Kondori
keywords: blood brain barrier; nanocarrier; peptide library; phage display; targeting