Intracerebroventricular injection - Wikipedia Intracerebroventricular injection Intracerebroventricular injection ( ICVI ) is an invasive injection technique of substances directly into the cerebrospinal fluid in cerebral ventricles in order to bypass the blood brain barrier. Although this barrier effectively protects the brain, it can prevent important medications to enter the CNS. The technique is widely used in biomedical research to introduce drugs, therapeutic RNAs, plasmid DNAs, and viral vectors into the CNS of diseased mice models. It can also be used in human in cases of neurodegenerative disorders like spinal muscular atrophy ( SMA ), or administering chemotherapy in gliomas as well as delivering neurotrophic factors to CNS. Ommaya reservoir is a catheter system invented by Ayub Ommaya, a Pakistani neurosurgeon in 1963. The reservoir is implanted under the scalp and attached to a catheter which is intracerebroventricularly inserted into the lateral ventricle. References Jump up ^ Lee, Mary ; Desai, Archana ( 2007 ). Gibaldi 's Drug Delivery Systems in Pharmaceutical Care. ASHP. p. 107. ISBN 9781585281367. Retrieved 26 March 2017. Jump up ^ Glascock, Jacqueline J. ; Osman, Erkan Y. ; Coady, Tristan H. ; Rose, Ferrill F. ; Shababi, Monir ; Lorson, Christian L. ( 3 October 2011 ). `` Delivery of Therapeutic Agents Through Intracerebroventricular ( ICV ) and Intravenous ( IV ) Injection in Mice ''. J Vis Exp ( 56 ). doi : 10.3791 / 2968. PMC 3227174. PMID 21988897. This medical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intracerebroventricular_injection&oldid=815912139 '' Categories : Medical treatments Routes of administration Injection ( medicine ) Ventricular system Medicine stubs Talk About Wikipedia Edit links This page was last edited on 18 December 2017, at 00 : 47. About Wikipedia

Question: icv (intracerebroventricular) injection of a drug involves injections into the
Answer: cerebrospinal fluid in cerebral ventricles in order to bypass the blood brain barrier