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 …

Stepping forward in antibody-drug conjugate development

Y Jin, MA Schladetsch, X Huang, MJ Balunas… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are cancer therapeutic agents comprised of an antibody,
a linker and a small-molecule payload. ADCs use the specificity of the antibody to target the …

Pharmacokinetics of monoclonal antibodies and Fc-fusion proteins

L Liu - Protein & cell, 2018 - academic.oup.com
There are many factors that can influence the pharmacokinetics (PK) of a mAb or Fc-fusion
molecule with the primary determinant being FcRn-mediated recycling. Through Fab or Fc …

Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development

H Ausserwöger, MM Schneider, TW Herling… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibodies are highly potent therapeutic scaffolds with more than a hundred different
products approved on the market. Successful development of antibody-based drugs …

FGFR a promising druggable target in cancer: Molecular biology and new drugs

R Porta, R Borea, A Coelho, S Khan, A Araújo… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction The Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor (FGFR) family consists of
Tyrosine Kinase Receptors (TKR) involved in several biological functions. Recently …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic aberrations in the FGFR pathway: opportunities for targeted therapies in solid tumors

R Dienstmann, J Rodon, A Prat, J Perez-Garcia… - Annals of oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
The fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) cascade plays crucial roles in tumor cell
proliferation, angiogenesis, migration and survival. Accumulating evidence suggests that in …

Molecular pathways: fibroblast growth factor signaling: a new therapeutic opportunity in cancer

AN Brooks, E Kilgour, PD Smith - Clinical cancer research, 2012 - AACR
The fibroblast growth factor/fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGF/FGFR) signaling axis plays
an important role in normal organ, vascular, and skeletal development. Deregulation of …

[HTML][HTML] Translational pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of monoclonal antibodies

AV Kamath - Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, 2016 - Elsevier
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are an important therapeutic class with complex
pharmacology and interdependent pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) …

A strategy for risk mitigation of antibodies with fast clearance

I Hötzel, FP Theil, LJ Bernstein, S Prabhu, R Deng… - MAbs, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
A majority of human therapeutic antibody candidates show pharmacokinetic properties
suitable for clinical use, but an unexpectedly fast antibody clearance is sometimes observed …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacokinetics and toxicology of therapeutic proteins: Advances and challenges

Y Vugmeyster, X Xu, FP Theil, LA Khawli… - World journal of …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Significant progress has been made in understanding pharmacokinetics (PK),
pharmacodynamics (PD), as well as toxicity profiles of therapeutic proteins in animals and …