Engineered nanomedicines with enhanced tumor penetration

J Ding, J Chen, L Gao, Z Jiang, Y Zhang, M Li, Q **ao… - Nano Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanomedicine has been extensively explored to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy with
modest therapeutic efficacy in the clinic, owing to various factors. A primary factor is …

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 …

Cancer‐targeting nanoparticles for combinatorial nucleic acid delivery

HJ Vaughan, JJ Green, SY Tzeng - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acids are a promising type of therapeutic for the treatment of a wide range of
conditions, including cancer, but they also pose many delivery challenges. For efficient and …

[HTML][HTML] A review of low-intensity ultrasound for cancer therapy

AKW Wood, CM Sehgal - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2015 - Elsevier
The literature describing the use of low-intensity ultrasound in four major areas of cancer
therapy—sonodynamic therapy, ultrasound-mediated chemotherapy, ultrasound-mediated …

Making waves: how ultrasound-targeted drug delivery is changing pharmaceutical approaches

LJ Delaney, S Isguven, JR Eisenbrey, NJ Hickok… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Administration of drugs through oral and intravenous routes is a mainstay of modern
medicine, but this approach suffers from limitations associated with off-target side effects and …

[HTML][HTML] Current approaches for improving intratumoral accumulation and distribution of nanomedicines

MO Durymanov, AA Rosenkranz, AS Sobolev - Theranostics, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The ability of nanoparticles and macromolecules to passively accumulate in solid tumors
and enhance therapeutic effects in comparison with conventional anticancer agents has …

[HTML][HTML] Microbubbles and nanobubbles with ultrasound for systemic gene delivery

Y Endo-Takahashi, Y Negishi - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The regulation of gene expression is a promising therapeutic approach for many intractable
diseases. However, its use in clinical applications requires the efficient delivery of nucleic …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in ultrasound mediated gene therapy using microbubble contrast agents

SR Sirsi, MA Borden - Theranostics, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microbubble ultrasound contrast agents have the potential to dramatically improve gene
therapy treatments by enhancing the delivery of therapeutic DNA to malignant tissue. The …

Ultrasound robotics for precision therapy

ADC Fonseca, D Ahmed - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, the application of microrobots in precision therapy has gained significant
attention. The small size and maneuverability of these micromachines enable them to …

Cardiovascular drug delivery with ultrasound and microbubbles

E Unger, T Porter, J Lindner, P Grayburn - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Microbubbles lower the threshold for cavitation of ultrasound and have multiple potential
therapeutic applications in the cardiovascular system. One of the first therapeutic …