Outwitting the blood-brain barrier for therapeutic purposes: osmotic opening and other means

RA Kroll, EA Neuwelt - Neurosurgery, 1998 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: This article reviews historical aspects of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and recent
advances in mechanisms to deliver therapeutic agents across the BBB for the treatment of …

A positron emission tomography study of silent and oral single word reading in stuttering and nonstuttering adults

LFD Nil, RM Kroll, S Kapur, S Houle - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2000 - ASHA
Over the last decade positron emission tomography (PET) has been used extensively for the
study of language and other cognitive and sensorimotor processes in healthy and diseased …

Increasing volume of distribution to the brain with interstitial infusion: dose, rather than convection, might be the most important factor

RA Kroll, MA Pagel, LL Muldoon… - …, 1996 - journals.lww.com
THE VOLUME OF distribution in tissue (V t) that can be achieved by direct interstitial infusion
of therapeutic agents into brain is limited. The maintenance of a pressure gradient during …

A positron emission tomography study of short-and long-term treatment effects on functional brain activation in adults who stutter

LF De Nil, RM Kroll, SJ Lafaille, S Houle - Journal of fluency disorders, 2003 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that fluency-inducing techniques, such as choral speech, result
in changes in neural activation as measured by functional neuroimaging. In the present …

A voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis of regional grey and white matter volume abnormalities within the speech production network of children who stutter

DS Beal, VL Gracco, J Brettschneider, RM Kroll, F Luc - Cortex, 2013 - Elsevier
It is well documented that neuroanatomical differences exist between adults who stutter and
their fluently speaking peers. Specifically, adults who stutter have been found to have more …

Improving drug delivery to intracerebral tumor and surrounding brain in a rodent model: a comparison of osmotic versus bradykinin modification of the blood-brain and …

RA Kroll, MA Pagel, LL Muldoon… - …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To compare transient blood-brain barrier disruption (BBBD) by hypertonic
mannitol with pharmacological modification of the blood-tumor barrier by the vasoactive peptide …

Functional neuroimaging of cerebellar activation during single word reading and verb generation in stuttering and nonstuttering adults

F Luc, RM Kroll, S Houle - Neuroscience letters, 2001 - Elsevier
Articulatory discoordinations typically observed in fluent and disfluent speech of stuttering
adults suggest an underlying deficiency in the precise timing needed for speech production. …

Delayed administration of sodium thiosulfate in animal models reduces platinum ototoxicity without reduction of antitumor activity

LL Muldoon, MA Pagel, RA Kroll, RE Brummett… - Clinical Cancer …, 2000 - AACR
Platinum-based chemotherapeutic agents, such as carboplatin and cisplatin, are effective
against many human tumors, but their use may be limited by a high incidence of ototoxicity. …

Treatment intensity and childhood apraxia of speech

…, T Rietveld, B Maassen, R Kroll… - … journal of language …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Intensive treatment has been repeatedly recommended for the treatment of
speech deficits in childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). However, differences in treatment …

The effects of simulated stuttering and prolonged speech on the neural activation patterns of stuttering and nonstuttering adults

F Luc, DS Beal, SJ Lafaille, RM Kroll, AP Crawley… - Brain and language, 2008 - Elsevier
Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to investigate the neural correlates of
passive listening, habitual speech and two modified speech patterns (simulated stuttering and …