Smart materials for drug delivery and cancer therapy

Y Yang, W Zeng, P Huang, X Zeng, L Mei - View, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Until now, enormous smart materials have been engineered with endogenous stimulators
such as pH, reactive oxygen species, glutathione, hypoxia and enzyme, or exogenous …

Gold nanoparticles in cancer theranostics

Q Gao, J Zhang, J Gao, Z Zhang, H Zhu… - … in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Conventional cancer treatments, such as surgical resection, radiotherapy, and
chemotherapy, have achieved significant progress in cancer therapy. Nevertheless, some …

Engineering plasmonic nanoparticles for enhanced photoacoustic imaging

Y Mantri, JV Jokerst - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is an emerging imaging modality whereby pulsed laser
illumination generates pressure transients that are detectable using conventional …

Activatable polymeric nanoprobe for near‐infrared fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging of T lymphocytes

Y Zhang, S He, W Chen, Y Liu, X Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of real‐time non‐invasive imaging probes to assess infiltration and
activation of cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) is critical to predict the efficacy of cancer …

Microbubble agents: New directions

E Stride, T Segers, G Lajoinie, S Cherkaoui… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbubble ultrasound contrast agents have now been in use for several decades and their
safety and efficacy in a wide range of diagnostic applications have been well established …

Therapeutic oxygen delivery by perfluorocarbon-based colloids

MP Krafft, JG Riess - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
After the protocol-related indecisive clinical trial of Oxygent, a perfluorooctylbromide/
phospholipid nanoemulsion, in cardiac surgery, that often unduly assigned the observed …

An activatable polymeric reporter for near‐infrared fluorescent and photoacoustic imaging of invasive cancer

Q Li, S Li, S He, W Chen, P Cheng, Y Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Discriminative detection of invasive and noninvasive breast cancers is crucial for their
effective treatment and prognosis. However, activatable probes able to do so in vivo are …

Biomedical Photoacoustic Imaging for Molecular Detection and Disease Diagnosis:“Always‐On” and “Turn‐On” Probes

Y Zeng, T Dou, L Ma, J Ma - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a nonionizing, noninvasive imaging technique that combines
optical and ultrasonic imaging modalities to provide images with excellent contrast, spatial …

A multidrug delivery microrobot for the synergistic treatment of cancer

Y Li, D Dong, Y Qu, J Li, S Chen, H Zhao, Q Zhang… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multidrug combination therapy provides an effective strategy for malignant tumor treatment.
This paper presents the development of a biodegradable microrobot for on‐demand …

Ultrasensitive ultrasound imaging of gene expression with signal unmixing

DP Sawyer, A Bar-Zion, A Farhadi, S Shivaei, B Ling… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Acoustic reporter genes (ARGs) that encode air-filled gas vesicles enable ultrasound-based
imaging of gene expression in genetically modified bacteria and mammalian cells …