Ultrasound‐controlled drug release and drug activation for cancer therapy

L Tu, Z Liao, Z Luo, YL Wu, A Herrmann, S Huo - Exploration, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional chemotherapy suffers from severe toxicity and side effects that limit its maximum
application in cancer therapy. To overcome this challenge, an ideal treatment strategy would …

Intracellular delivery by membrane disruption: mechanisms, strategies, and concepts

MP Stewart, R Langer, KF Jensen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Stimuli-responsive nano-architecture drug-delivery systems to solid tumor micromilieu: past, present, and future perspectives

HS El-Sawy, AM Al-Abd, TA Ahmed, KM El-Say… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The microenvironment characteristics of solid tumors, renowned as barriers that harshly
impeded many drug-delivery approaches, were precisely studied, investigated, categorized …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound-responsive cavitation nuclei for therapy and drug delivery

K Kooiman, S Roovers, SAG Langeveld… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Therapeutic ultrasound strategies that harness the mechanical activity of cavitation nuclei for
beneficial tissue bio-effects are actively under development. The mechanical oscillations of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Micro/nano-bubble-assisted ultrasound to enhance the EPR effect and potential theranostic applications

L Duan, L Yang, J Jin, F Yang, D Liu, K Hu, Q Wang… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Drug delivery for tumor theranostics involves the extensive use of the enhanced permeability
and retention (EPR) effect. Previously, various types of nanomedicines have been …

Mechanical force-triggered drug delivery

Y Zhang, J Yu, HN Bomba, Y Zhu, Z Gu - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Advanced drug delivery systems (DDS) enhance treatment efficacy of different therapeutics
in a dosage, spatial, and/or temporal controlled manner. To date, numerous chemical-or …

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 …

Mechanical and biological effects of ultrasound: a review of present knowledge

Z Izadifar, P Babyn, D Chapman - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is widely used for medical diagnosis and increasingly for therapeutic purposes.
An understanding of the bio-effects of sonography is important for clinicians and scientists …

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 …