Ultrasound‐controlled drug release and drug activation for cancer therapy

L Tu, Z Liao, Z Luo, YL Wu, A Herrmann, S Huo - Exploration, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional chemotherapy suffers from severe toxicity and side effects that limit its maximum
application in cancer therapy. To overcome this challenge, an ideal treatment strategy would …

Applications of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy against bacterial biofilms

SP Songca, Y Adjei - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and allied photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy
have shown remarkable activity against bacterial pathogens in both planktonic and biofilm …

Exosomes as smart drug delivery vehicles for cancer immunotherapy

H Zhang, S Wang, M Sun, Y Cui, J **ng… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Exosomes (Exos) as drug delivery vehicles have been widely used for cancer
immunotherapy owing to their good biocompatibility, low toxicity, and low immunogenicity …

Nano-enhanced drug delivery and therapeutic ultrasound for cancer treatment and beyond

P Tharkar, R Varanasi, WSF Wong, CT **… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
While ultrasound is most widely known for its use in diagnostic imaging, the energy carried
by ultrasound waves can be utilized to influence cell function and drug delivery …

Carbon dots: Opportunities and challenges in cancer therapy

T Bhattacharya, GH Shin, JT Kim - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, carbon dots (CDs) have been actively studied and reported for their various
properties. In particular, the specific characteristics of carbon dots have been considered as …

[HTML][HTML] GSH-sensitive polymeric prodrug: synthesis and loading with photosensitizers as nanoscale chemo-photodynamic anti-cancer nanomedicine

L Luo, Y Qi, H Zhong, S Jiang, H Zhang, H Cai… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Precisely delivering combinational therapeutic agents has become a crucial challenge for
anti-tumor treatment. In this study, a novel redox-responsive polymeric prodrug (molecular …

A review of chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy for lung cancer treatment

A El-Hussein, SL Manoto… - Anti-Cancer Agents …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Cancer is among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Among the
different types of cancers, lung cancer is considered to be the leading cause of death related …

ROS-responsive nanoparticle delivery of mRNA and photosensitizer for combinatorial cancer therapy

H Zhou, Y Liao, X Han, DS Chen, X Hong, K Zhou… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Messenger RNA (mRNA) therapy has shown tremendous potential for different diseases
including cancer. While mRNA has been extensively used in cancer vaccine development …

Photodynamic therapy based on porphyrin-based metal–organic frameworks

D Xu, Q Duan, H Yu, W Dong - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Porphyrins and their derivatives have excellent photophysical and electrochemical
properties, which have attracted great interest in the fields of catalysis, biosensing, gas …

Nanomedicine in cancer therapy

D Fan, Y Cao, M Cao, Y Wang, Y Cao… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer remains a highly lethal disease in the world. Currently, either conventional cancer
therapies or modern immunotherapies are non-tumor-targeted therapeutic approaches that …