At present, ultrasound radiation is broadly employed in medicine for both diagnostic and
therapeutic purposes at various frequencies and intensities. In this review article, we focus …

Spurred by recent progress in materials chemistry and drug delivery, stimuli-responsive
devices that deliver a drug in spatial-, temporal-and dosage-controlled fashions have …

Beyond the emerging field of oncological ultrasound molecular imaging, the recent
significant advancements in ultrasound and contrast agent technology have paved the way …

This study addresses the role of PTEN loss in intrinsic resistance to the BRAF inhibitor
PLX4720. Immunohistochemical staining of a tissue array covering all stages of melanocytic …

Topical application of nucleic acids offers many potential therapeutic advantages for
suppressing genes in the skin, and potentially for systemic gene delivery. However, the …

First identified in the early 1980s as retroviral oncogenes, the Raf proteins have been the
objects of intense research. The discoveries 10 years later that the Raf family members (Raf …

The use of ultrasound for the delivery of drugs to, or through, the skin is commonly known as
sonophoresis or phonophoresis. The use of therapeutic and high frequencies of ultrasound …

Transdermal drug delivery offers an attractive alternative to the conventional drug delivery
methods of oral administration and injections. However, the stratum corneum serves as a …

It is unknown why only a minority of circulating tumor cells trapped in lung capillaries form
metastases and involvement of immune cells remains uncertain. A novel model has been …

Ultrasounds are often used in cancer treatment protocols, eg to collect tumor tissues in the
right location using ultrasound-guided biopsy, to image the region of the tumor using more …