Diverse gatekeepers for mesoporous silica nanoparticle based drug delivery systems

J Wen, K Yang, F Liu, H Li, Y Xu, S Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional cancer chemotherapy is often associated with toxicity issues. Thus, new drug
delivery systems (DDSs) are developed as alternatives owing to their potential to selectively …

Microbubbles for human diagnosis and therapy

L Fournier, T de La Taille, C Chauvierre - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbubbles (MBs) were observed for the first time in vivo as a curious consequence of
quick saline injection during ultrasound (US) imaging of the aortic root, more than 50 years …

Protein scaffolds: antibody alternatives for cancer diagnosis and therapy

R Luo, H Liu, Z Cheng - RSC chemical biology, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Although antibodies are well developed and widely used in cancer therapy and diagnostic
fields, some defects remain, such as poor tissue penetration, long in vivo metabolic …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular ultrasound imaging

G Köse, M Darguzyte, F Kiessling - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, molecular ultrasound imaging has been rapidly progressing. It has
proven promising to diagnose angiogenesis, inflammation, and thrombosis, and many …

Characterization of the tumor microenvironment and tumor–stroma interaction by non-invasive preclinical imaging

N Ramamonjisoa, E Ackerstaff - Frontiers in oncology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Tumors are often characterized by hypoxia, vascular abnormalities, low extracellular pH,
increased interstitial fluid pressure, altered choline-phospholipid metabolism, and aerobic …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of mesothelin in the ovarian cancer tumor microenvironment

TS Hilliard - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecological disease among US women. Poor 5-year
survival rates (< 30%) are due to presentation of most women at diagnosis with advanced …

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of malignant liver lesions

I Durot, SR Wilson, JK Willmann - Abdominal Radiology, 2018 - Springer
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is a safe, relatively inexpensive, and widely
available imaging technique using dedicated imaging ultrasound sequences and FDA …

Development and differentiation in monobodies based on the fibronectin type 3 domain

PG Chandler, AM Buckle - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
As a non-antibody scaffold, monobodies based on the fibronectin type III (FN3) domain
overcome antibody size and complexity while maintaining analogous binding loops …

Interactions between tumor biology and targeted nanoplatforms for imaging applications

M Azizi, H Dianat‐Moghadam, R Salehi… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although considerable efforts have been conducted to diagnose, improve, and treat cancer
in the past few decades, existing therapeutic options are insufficient, as mortality and …

Toward ultrasound molecular imaging of endothelial dysfunction in diabetes: targets, strategies, and challenges

J Liu, C Wang, S Qiu, W Sun, G Yang… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Diabetes vasculopathy is a significant complication of diabetes mellitus (DM), and early
identification and timely intervention can effectively slow the progression. Accumulating …