Ultrasound-mediated nano drug delivery for treating cancer: Fundamental physics to future directions

FM Kashkooli, A Jakhmola, TK Hornsby… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of biocompatible nanocarriers in medicine has provided several benefits
over conventional treatment methods. However, achieving high treatment efficacy and deep …

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 …

Gas-mediated cancer bioimaging and therapy

L Chen, SF Zhou, L Su, J Song - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Gas-involving cancer theranostics have attracted considerable attention in recent years due
to their high therapeutic efficacy and biosafety. We have reviewed the recent significant …

Drug delivery system based on nanobubbles

J Jin, L Yang, F Chen, N Gu - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrasound (US) medical technology is widely used due to its advantages of safety, speed,
and low cost. With the rapid development of biomedical nanotechnology …

The role of ultrasound-driven microbubble dynamics in drug delivery: from microbubble fundamentals to clinical translation

S Roovers, T Segers, G Lajoinie, J Deprez, M Versluis… - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
In the last couple of decades, ultrasound-driven microbubbles have proven excellent
candidates for local drug delivery applications. Besides being useful drug carriers …

[HTML][HTML] Photonic and magnetic materials for on-demand local drug delivery

I Armenia, CC Ayllón, BT Herrero, F Bussolari… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanomedicine has been considered a promising tool for biomedical research and clinical
practice in the 21st century because of the great impact nanomaterials could have on human …

Making waves: how ultrasound-targeted drug delivery is changing pharmaceutical approaches

LJ Delaney, S Isguven, JR Eisenbrey, NJ Hickok… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Administration of drugs through oral and intravenous routes is a mainstay of modern
medicine, but this approach suffers from limitations associated with off-target side effects and …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art of microbubble-assisted blood-brain barrier disruption

KH Song, BK Harvey, MA Borden - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Focused ultrasound with microbubbles promises unprecedented advantages for blood-brain
barrier disruption over existing intracranial drug delivery methods, as well as a significant …

Sonopermeation to improve drug delivery to tumors: from fundamental understanding to clinical translation

S Snipstad, E Sulheim, C de Lange Davies… - Expert opinion on …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Ultrasound in combination with microbubbles can make cells and tissues more
accessible for drugs, thereby achieving improved therapeutic outcomes. In this review, we …

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 …