Ultrasound-enhanced drug transport and distribution in the brain.

"We thank Dr. Henry Brem at the Johns Hopkins University, for providing frozen brain tissues, Dr. Kacy Cullen and Dr. Michelle LaPlaca at the Georgia Institute of Technology for providing cortical neurons, and Dr. Heather Bara and Dr. Thanassios Sambanis at the Georgia Institute of Technology for providing adeno-associated virus. This work was supported primarily by CytoDome, Inc., as well as the Georgia Research Alliance, and the National Institutes of Health. Gd-lipo were kindly provided by Hermes Biosciences Inc. Dr. Sumit Paliwal and Dr. Samir Mitragotri carried out the in vitro tissue permeability studies. Dr. Krys Bankiewicz and John Bringas carried out the in vivo non-human primate study, and Dr. Gill Heart carried out its quantitative analysis. Ying Liu and Dr. Mark Prausnitz carried out the in vitro bioactivity study. Ying Liu and Dr. Sumit Paliwal primarily wrote the manuscript."