Hydrogel-based controlled drug delivery for cancer treatment: a review

Z Sun, C Song, C Wang, Y Hu, J Wu - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2019 - ACS Publications
As an emerging drug carrier, hydrogels have been widely used for tumor drug delivery. A
hydrogel drug carrier can cause less severe side effects than systemic chemotherapy and …

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 …

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] A review of low-intensity ultrasound for cancer therapy

AKW Wood, CM Sehgal - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2015 - Elsevier
The literature describing the use of low-intensity ultrasound in four major areas of cancer
therapy—sonodynamic therapy, ultrasound-mediated chemotherapy, ultrasound-mediated …

Physics of bubble oscillations

W Lauterborn, T Kurz - Reports on progress in physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Bubbles in liquids, soft and squeezy objects made of gas and vapour, yet so strong as to
destroy any material and so mysterious as at times turning into tiny light bulbs, are the topic …

Ultrasound-mediated tumor imaging and nanotherapy using drug loaded, block copolymer stabilized perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions

N Rapoport, KH Nam, R Gupta, Z Gao, P Mohan… - Journal of Controlled …, 2011 - Elsevier
Perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions can deliver lipophilic therapeutic agents to solid tumors and
simultaneously provide for monitoring nanocarrier biodistribution via ultrasonography and/or …

Recent advances in ultrasound-based transdermal drug delivery

BCQ Seah, BM Teo - International journal of nanomedicine, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The transdermal transport of pharmaceuticals possesses various advantageous properties
over conventional drug administration techniques such as oral delivery and hypodermic …

Ice breaking by a collapsing bubble

P Cui, AM Zhang, S Wang, BC Khoo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
This work focuses on using the power of a collapsing bubble in ice breaking. We
experimentally validated the possibility and investigated the mechanism of ice breaking with …

Magnetically enhanced nucleic acid delivery. Ten years of magnetofection—Progress and prospects

C Plank, O Zelphati, O Mykhaylyk - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Nucleic acids carry the building plans of living systems. As such, they can be exploited to
make cells produce a desired protein, or to shut down the expression of endogenous genes …

Cavitation in soft matter

CW Barney, CE Dougan, KR McLeod… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Cavitation is the sudden, unstable expansion of a void or bubble within a liquid or solid
subjected to a negative hydrostatic stress. Cavitation rheology is a field emerging from the …