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Remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: Toward medical applications

Most neurological diseases have no cure today; innovations in neurotechnology are in urgent need. Nanomaterial-based remote neurostimulation with physical fields (NNSPs) is an emerging class of neurotechnologies that has generated tremendous interest in recent years. This perspective focuses on the...

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Autores principales: Xu, Zixing, Xu, Jinhua, Yang, Wenjuan, Lin, Huoyue, Ruan, Gang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AIP Publishing LLC 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7647612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33195958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0022206
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author Xu, Zixing
Xu, Jinhua
Yang, Wenjuan
Lin, Huoyue
Ruan, Gang
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Xu, Jinhua
Yang, Wenjuan
Lin, Huoyue
Ruan, Gang
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description Most neurological diseases have no cure today; innovations in neurotechnology are in urgent need. Nanomaterial-based remote neurostimulation with physical fields (NNSPs) is an emerging class of neurotechnologies that has generated tremendous interest in recent years. This perspective focuses on the clinical translation of this new class of neurotechnologies, an issue that so far has not received enough attention. We outline the major barriers in their clinical translation. We highlight our recent efforts to tackle these translational barriers, with a focus on the biological delivery problem. In particular, for the first time, we have shown that it is feasible to use noninvasive brain delivery to generate significant physiological responses in living animals by NNSP. However, much more work is needed to overcome the translational barriers.
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spelling pubmed-76476122020-11-13 Remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: Toward medical applications Xu, Zixing Xu, Jinhua Yang, Wenjuan Lin, Huoyue Ruan, Gang APL Bioeng Perspectives Most neurological diseases have no cure today; innovations in neurotechnology are in urgent need. Nanomaterial-based remote neurostimulation with physical fields (NNSPs) is an emerging class of neurotechnologies that has generated tremendous interest in recent years. This perspective focuses on the clinical translation of this new class of neurotechnologies, an issue that so far has not received enough attention. We outline the major barriers in their clinical translation. We highlight our recent efforts to tackle these translational barriers, with a focus on the biological delivery problem. In particular, for the first time, we have shown that it is feasible to use noninvasive brain delivery to generate significant physiological responses in living animals by NNSP. However, much more work is needed to overcome the translational barriers. AIP Publishing LLC 2020-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7647612/ /pubmed/33195958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0022206 Text en © 2020 Author(s). 2473-2877/2020/4(4)/040901/5 All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Xu, Zixing
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Remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: Toward medical applications
title Remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: Toward medical applications
title_full Remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: Toward medical applications
title_fullStr Remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: Toward medical applications
title_full_unstemmed Remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: Toward medical applications
title_short Remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: Toward medical applications
title_sort remote neurostimulation with physical fields at cellular level enabled by nanomaterials: toward medical applications
topic Perspectives
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7647612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33195958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0022206
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