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 …

Materials for immunotherapy

CW Shields IV, LLW Wang, MA Evans… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Breakthroughs in materials engineering have accelerated the progress of immunotherapy in
preclinical studies. The interplay of chemistry and materials has resulted in improved …

Nanobubbles: a promising efficient tool for therapeutic delivery

R Cavalli, M Soster, M Argenziano - Therapeutic delivery, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In recent decades ultrasound-guided delivery of drugs loaded on nanocarriers has been the
focus of increasing attention to improve therapeutic treatments. Ultrasound has often been …

Ultrasound nanotheranostics in fighting cancer: advances and prospects

LQ Zhou, P Li, XW Cui, CF Dietrich - Cancer letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The intrinsic limits of conventional ultrasound microbubble contrast agent greatly promoted
the development and application of various nanomaterials for more efficient cancer …

A review on liposome-based therapeutic approaches against malignant melanoma

F Mirzavi, M Barati, A Soleimani… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Melanoma is a highly aggressive form of skin cancer with a very poor prognosis and
excessive resistance to current conventional treatments. Recently, the application of the …

Ultrasound in tumor immunotherapy: Current status and future developments

YJ Ho, JP Li, CH Fan, HL Liu, CK Yeh - Journal of Controlled Release, 2020 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy has considerable potential in eliminating cancers by activating the host's
own immune system, while the thermal and mechanical effects of ultrasound have various …

Lipid-based particles: versatile delivery systems for mucosal vaccination against infection

B Corthésy, G Bioley - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Vaccination is the process of administering immunogenic formulations in order to induce or
harness antigen (Ag)-specific antibody and T cell responses in order to protect against …

Ultrasound induced cancer immunotherapy

J Unga, M Hashida - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Recently, the use of ultrasound (US) has been shown to have potential in cancer
immunotherapy. High intensity focused US destruction of tumors may lead to immunity …

Recent advances in targeted nanoparticles drug delivery to melanoma

J Li, Y Wang, R Liang, X An, K Wang, G Shen… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Melanoma is one of the most aggressive skin cancers, notorious for its high multidrug
resistance and low survival rate. Conventional therapies (eg, dacarbazine, interferon-alpha …

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 …