Researchers mimic bee venom strategy to help drugs get past blood-brain barrier

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Researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona, Spain said yesterday that they have shown in preclinical tests that a bee-venom peptide, apamin, can be used to ferry medications across the blood-brain barrier.

Although the blood-brain barrier prevents most things from getting in and flooding the brain, certain peptides in animal venoms can travel across the membrane and inflict damage. The researchers though that that they could take advantage of this function to help deliver medicines directly to the brain.

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