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Intranasal Delivery of Ivermectin Nanosystems as an Antitumor Agent

by bilsbie on 10/11/25, 4:03 PM with 2 comments

  • by leakycap on 10/11/25, 4:10 PM

    > 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?