Current developments in nanotechnology for improved cancer treatment, focusing on tumor hypoxia

C Dai Phung, TH Tran, HT Nguyen, JH Jeong… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is a common feature of the tumor microenvironment, which is characterized by
tissue oxygen deficiency due to an aggressive proliferation of cancer cells. Hypoxia …

Physical triggering strategies for drug delivery

T Sun, A Dasgupta, Z Zhao, M Nurunnabi… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Physically triggered systems hold promise for improving drug delivery by enhancing the
controllability of drug accumulation and release, lowering non-specific toxicity, and …

Low-frequency ultrasound-mediated cytokine transfection enhances T cell recruitment at local and distant tumor sites

T Ilovitsh, Y Feng, J Foiret… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Robust cytotoxic T cell infiltration has proven to be difficult to achieve in solid tumors. We set
out to develop a flexible protocol to efficiently transfect tumor and stromal cells to produce …

Dual fluorescence imaging-guided programmed delivery of doxorubicin and CpG nanoparticles to modulate tumor microenvironment for effective chemo …

X Dong, A Yang, Y Bai, D Kong, F Lv - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Chemo-immunotherapy has gained increasing attention as one of most promising
combination therapy strategies to battle against malignant cancer. In order to achieve a …

Metal complex-based liposomes: Applications and prospects in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics

Z Wang, J Li, G Lin, Z He, Y Wang - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal complexes are of increasing interest as pharmaceutical agents in cancer diagnostics
and therapeutics, while some of them suffer from issues such as limited water solubility and …

Engineering versatile nanomedicines for ultrasonic tumor immunotherapy

J Liang, X Qiao, L Qiu, H Xu, H Xiang, H Ding… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the specific advantages of ultrasound (US) in therapeutic disease treatments, the
unique therapeutic US technology has emerged. In addition to featuring a low‐invasive …

Combination of focused ultrasound, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy: new perspectives in breast cancer therapy

M Dahan, M Cortet, C Lafon… - Journal of Ultrasound in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Focused ultrasound is a treatment modality increasingly used for diverse therapeutic
applications, and currently approved for several indications, including prostate cancers and …

[HTML][HTML] Closed-loop trans-skull ultrasound hyperthermia leads to improved drug delivery from thermosensitive drugs and promotes changes in vascular transport …

C Kim, Y Guo, A Velalopoulou, J Leisen… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Effective drug delivery in brain tumors remains a major challenge in oncology. Although
local hyperthermia and stimuli-responsive delivery systems, such as thermosensitive …

Development of thermosensitive resiquimod-loaded liposomes for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

H Zhang, WL Tang, A Kheirolomoom, BZ Fite… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Resiquimod (R848) is a toll-like receptor 7 and 8 (TLR7/8) agonist with potent antitumor and
immunostimulatory activity. However, systemic delivery of R848 is poorly tolerated because …

Focused ultrasound for immunomodulation of the tumor microenvironment

JB Joiner, Y Pylayeva-Gupta… - The Journal of …, 2020 - journals.aai.org
Focused ultrasound (FUS) has recently emerged as a modulator of the tumor
microenvironment, paving the way for FUS to become a safe yet formidable cancer treatment …