Nanobubbles for therapeutic delivery: Production, stability and current prospects

DVB Batchelor, FJ Armistead, N Ingram… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanobubbles (NBs) have recently garnered widespread attention for their potential use as
dual diagnostic and therapeutic agents. Similar to their micron-sized relatives …

Liposomal nanotechnology for cancer theranostics

X Yue, Z Dai - Current medicinal chemistry, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Liposomes are a type of biomimetic nanoparticles generated from self-assembling
concentric lipid bilayer enclosing an aqueous core domain. They have been attractive …

Selective ablation of cancer cells with low intensity pulsed ultrasound

DR Mittelstein, J Ye, EF Schibber… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrasound can be focused into deep tissues with millimeter precision to perform
noninvasive ablative therapy for diseases such as cancer. In most cases, this ablation uses …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound-triggered therapeutic microbubbles enhance the efficacy of cytotoxic drugs by increasing circulation and tumor drug accumulation and limiting …

N Ingram, LE McVeigh, RH Abou-Saleh, J Maynard… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Most cancer patients receive chemotherapy at some stage of their treatment which makes
improving the efficacy of cytotoxic drugs an ongoing and important goal. Despite large …

[HTML][HTML] Development of exosome membrane materials-fused microbubbles for enhanced stability and efficient drug delivery of ultrasound contrast agent

Y Jang, J Park, P Kim, EJ Park, H Sun, Y Baek… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
Lipid-coated microbubbles are widely used as an ultrasound contrast agent, as well as drug
delivery carriers. However, the two main limitations in ultrasound diagnosis and drug …

[HTML][HTML] Formulation and characterisation of drug-loaded antibubbles for image-guided and ultrasound-triggered drug delivery

S Kotopoulis, C Lam, R Haugse, S Snipstad… - Ultrasonics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to develop high load-capacity antibubbles that can be visualized
using diagnostic ultrasound and the encapsulated drug can be released and delivered …

[HTML][HTML] Dual frequency ultrasonic cavitation in various liquids: High-speed imaging and acoustic pressure measurements

JA Morton, M Khavari, A Priyadarshi, A Kaur… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrasonic cavitation is used in various processes and applications, utilizing powerful shock
waves and high-speed liquid jets generated by the collapsing bubbles. Typically, a single …

[HTML][HTML] Horizon: Microfluidic platform for the production of therapeutic microbubbles and nanobubbles

RH Abou-Saleh, FJ Armistead… - Review of Scientific …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Microbubbles (MBs) have a multitude of applications including as contrast agents in
ultrasound imaging and as therapeutic drug delivery vehicles, with further scope for …

Ultrasound-triggered release of sinoporphyrin sodium from liposome-microbubble complexes and its enhanced sonodynamic toxicity in breast cancer

Y Li, H An, X Wang, P Wang, F Qu, Y Jiao, K Zhang… - Nano Research, 2018 - Springer
Applying ultrasound (US) to drug delivery and disease therapy is important work.
Sonodynamic therapy (SDT)—a comprehensive therapy using US and a sonosensitizer …

Nano meets micro-translational nanotechnology in medicine: Nano-based applications for early tumor detection and therapy

S Siemer, D Wünsch, A Khamis, Q Lu, A Scherberich… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nanomaterials have great potential for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Circulating
tumor cells (CTCs) are cancer cells of solid tumor origin entering the peripheral blood after …