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Intranasal Delivery of Ivermectin Nanosystems as an Antitumor Agent (acs.org)
4 points by bilsbie 62 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> Ivermectin (IVM) [...] exhibits low oral bioavailability

Low oral bioavailability must be upsetting news for anyone who gagged down tubes of horse paste in the last few years

> blood-brain barrier

Sounds like the key use of IVM here is that it crosses the blood-brain barrier and can carry medicines into brain tissue where cancers are otherwise hard to treat?


https://translationalneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/art... (open access)

Well some claim that up to 98% of oral meds don't cross the bbb so this increases the candidate list 50x




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