[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound-responsive cavitation nuclei for therapy and drug delivery

K Kooiman, S Roovers, SAG Langeveld… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Therapeutic ultrasound strategies that harness the mechanical activity of cavitation nuclei for
beneficial tissue bio-effects are actively under development. The mechanical oscillations of …

Drug delivery by ultrasound-responsive nanocarriers for cancer treatment

K Entzian, A Aigner - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Conventional cancer chemotherapies often exhibit insufficient therapeutic outcomes and
dose-limiting toxicity. Therefore, there is a need for novel therapeutics and formulations with …

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 …

Application of ultrasound combined with microbubbles for cancer therapy

D Sharma, KX Leong, GJ Czarnota - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
At present, cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Treatment failure
remains one of the prime hurdles in cancer treatment due to the metastatic nature of cancer …

State-of-the-art of ultrasound-triggered drug delivery from ultrasound-responsive drug carriers

CH Fan, YJ Ho, CW Lin, N Wu… - Expert Opinion on …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Delivering sufficient therapeutics at the target site without off-target effects is a
major goal of drug delivery technology innovation. Among the established methods …

SonoVue® vs. Sonazoid™ vs. Optison™: Which Bubble Is Best for Low-Intensity Sonoporation of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma?

S Kotopoulis, M Popa, M Mayoral Safont, E Murvold… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of ultrasound and microbubbles to enhance therapeutic efficacy (sonoporation) has
shown great promise in cancer therapy from in vitro to ongoing clinical studies. The fastest …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of acoustic cluster therapy (ACT®) combined with chemotherapy in a patient-derived xenograft mouse model of pancreatic cancer

S Ng, AJ Healey, PC Sontum, S Kvåle, SH Torp… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas respond poorly to chemotherapy, in part due to the
dense tumor stroma that hinders drug delivery. Ultrasound (US) in combination with …

Acoustic nanodrops for biomedical applications

MA Borden, G Shakya, A Upadhyay… - Current opinion in colloid & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Acoustic nanodrops are designed to vaporize into ultrasound-responsive microbubbles,
which present certain challenges nonexistent for conventional nanoemulsions. The …

Low-intensity sonoporation-induced intracellular signalling of pancreatic cancer cells, fibroblasts and endothelial cells

R Haugse, A Langer, ET Murvold, DE Costea… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The use of ultrasound (US) and microbubbles (MB), usually referred to as sonoporation, has
great potential to increase the efficacy of chemotherapy. However, the molecular …

Theranostic attributes of acoustic cluster therapy and its use for enhancing the effectiveness of liposomal doxorubicin treatment of human triple negative breast cancer …

N Bush, A Healey, A Shah, G Box, V Kirkin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Acoustic cluster therapy (ACT) comprises co-administration of a formulation
containing microbubble/microdroplet clusters (PS101), together with a regular medicinal …