Opening doors with ultrasound and microbubbles: Beating biological barriers to promote drug delivery

J Deprez, G Lajoinie, Y Engelen, SC De Smedt… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Apart from its clinical use in imaging, ultrasound has been thoroughly investigated as a tool
to enhance drug delivery in a wide variety of applications. Therapeutic ultrasound, as such …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Photonic and magnetic materials for on-demand local drug delivery

I Armenia, CC Ayllón, BT Herrero, F Bussolari… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanomedicine has been considered a promising tool for biomedical research and clinical
practice in the 21st century because of the great impact nanomaterials could have on human …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Barrier-breaking effects of ultrasonic cavitation for drug delivery and biomarker release

Y Hu, J Wei, Y Shen, S Chen, X Chen - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, emerging evidence has demonstrated that cavitation actually creates important
bidirectional channels on biological barriers for both intratumoral drug delivery and …

Aptamer-based smart targeting and spatial trigger–response drug-delivery systems for anticancer therapy

D Park, SJ Lee, JW Park - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the field of drug delivery has witnessed remarkable progress, driven by the
quest for more effective and precise therapeutic interventions. Among the myriad strategies …

Ultrasound in tumor immunotherapy: Current status and future developments

YJ Ho, JP Li, CH Fan, HL Liu, CK Yeh - Journal of Controlled Release, 2020 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy has considerable potential in eliminating cancers by activating the host's
own immune system, while the thermal and mechanical effects of ultrasound have various …

Ultrasound-augmented cancer immunotherapy

B Liu, F Du, Z Feng, X **ang, R Guo, L Ma… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer remains a growing worldwide health problem with the most broadly studied
treatments, in which immunotherapy has made notable advancements during the recent …

Phase-shift nanodroplets as an emerging sonoresponsive nanomaterial for imaging and drug delivery applications

W Zhang, Y Shi, S Abd Shukor, A Vijayakumaran… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanodroplets–emerging phase-changing sonoresponsive materials–have attracted
substantial attention in biomedical applications for both tumour imaging and therapeutic …

Cell-based nanoparticles delivery systems for targeted cancer therapy: lessons from anti-angiogenesis treatments

P de la Torre, MJ Pérez-Lorenzo, Á Alcázar-Garrido… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The main strategy of cancer treatment has focused on attacking the tumor cells. Some
cancers initially responsive to chemotherapy become treatment-resistant. Another strategy is …