Interstitial fluid pressure as an emerging biomarker in solid tumors

H Salavati, C Debbaut, P Pullens, W Ceelen - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2022 - Elsevier
The physical microenvironment of cancer is characterized by elevated stiffness and tissue
pressure, the main component of which is the interstitial fluid pressure (IFP). Elevated IFP is …

Multiparametric MRI for characterization of the tumour microenvironment

E Hoffmann, M Masthoff, WG Kunz… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Our understanding of tumour biology has evolved over the past decades and cancer is now
viewed as a complex ecosystem with interactions between various cellular and non-cellular …

3D tumor angiogenesis models: recent advances and challenges

SM Bhat, VA Badiger, S Vasishta, J Chakraborty… - Journal of Cancer …, 2021 - Springer
The development of blood vessels, referred to as angiogenesis, is an intricate process
regulated spatially and temporally through a delicate balance between the qualitative and …

Engineering mesoscopic 3D tumor models with a self‐organizing vascularized matrix

F De Lorenzi, N Hansen, B Theek, R Daware… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced in vitro systems such as multicellular spheroids and lab‐on‐a‐chip devices have
been developed, but often fall short in reproducing the tissue scale and self‐organization of …

Computational fluid dynamics with imaging of cleared tissue and of in vivo perfusion predicts drug uptake and treatment responses in tumours

A d'Esposito, PW Sweeney, M Ali, M Saleh… - Nature Biomedical …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the uptake of a drug by diseased tissue, and the drug's subsequent
spatiotemporal distribution, are central factors in the development of effective targeted …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing pulsatile waveforms of paravascular cerebrospinal fluid dynamics within the glymphatic pathways using dynamic diffusion-weighted imaging (dDWI …

Q Wen, Y Tong, X Zhou, M Dzemidzic, CY Ho, YC Wu - Neuroimage, 2022 - Elsevier
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the paravascular spaces of the surface arteries (sPVS) is a vital
pathway in brain waste clearance. Arterial pulsations may be the driving force of the …

Extended pharmacokinetics improve site-specific prodrug activation using radiation

JM Quintana, M Kang, H Hu, TSC Ng… - ACS Central …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Radiotherapy is commonly used to treat cancer, and localized energy deposited by
radiotherapy has the potential to chemically uncage prodrugs; however, it has been …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasonic microbubble cavitation enhanced tissue permeability and drug diffusion in solid tumor therapy

J He, Z Liu, X Zhu, H **a, H Gao, J Lu - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chemotherapy has an essential role not only in advanced solid tumor therapy intervention
but also in society's health at large. Chemoresistance, however, seriously restricts the …

Investigating the contribution of collagen to the tumor biomechanical phenotype with noninvasive magnetic resonance elastography

J Li, K Zormpas-Petridis, JKR Boult, EL Reeves… - Cancer …, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
Increased stiffness in the extracellular matrix (ECM) contributes to tumor progression and
metastasis. Therefore, stromal modulating therapies and accompanying biomarkers are …

A secretory form of Parkin‐independent mitophagy contributes to the repertoire of extracellular vesicles released into the tumour interstitial fluid in vivo

M Howard, J Erickson, Z Cuba, S Kim… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We characterized the in vivo interstitial fluid (IF) content of extracellular vesicles (EVs) using
the GFP‐4T1 syngeneic murine cancer model to study EVs in‐transit to the draining lymph …