The blood–brain barrier and blood–tumour barrier in brain tumours and metastases

CD Arvanitis, GB Ferraro, RK Jain - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
For a blood-borne cancer therapeutic agent to be effective, it must cross the blood vessel
wall to reach cancer cells in adequate quantities, and it must overcome the resistance …

Tumor targeting via EPR: Strategies to enhance patient responses

SK Golombek, JN May, B Theek, L Appold… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
The tumor accumulation of nanomedicines relies on the enhanced permeability and
retention (EPR) effect. In the last 5–10 years, it has been increasingly recognized that there …

Virtual histological staining of unlabelled tissue-autofluorescence images via deep learning

Y Rivenson, H Wang, Z Wei, K de Haan… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
The histological analysis of tissue samples, widely used for disease diagnosis, involves
lengthy and laborious tissue preparation. Here, we show that a convolutional neural network …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays

P Nowak-Sliwinska, K Alitalo, E Allen, A Anisimov… - Angiogenesis, 2018 - Springer
The formation of new blood vessels, or angiogenesis, is a complex process that plays
important roles in growth and development, tissue and organ regeneration, as well as …

[HTML][HTML] Alliance with EPR effect: combined strategies to improve the EPR effect in the tumor microenvironment

J Park, Y Choi, H Chang, W Um, JH Ryu, IC Kwon - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The use of nanomedicine for cancer treatment takes advantage of its preferential
accumulation in tumors owing to the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. The …

[HTML][HTML] Reengineering the physical microenvironment of tumors to improve drug delivery and efficacy: from mathematical modeling to bench to bedside

T Stylianopoulos, LL Munn, RK Jain - Trends in cancer, 2018 - cell.com
Physical forces have a crucial role in tumor progression and cancer treatment. The
application of principles of engineering and physical sciences to oncology has provided …

[HTML][HTML] Antiangiogenesis strategies revisited: from starving tumors to alleviating hypoxia

RK Jain - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Ten antiangiogenic drugs targeting VEGF or its receptors are approved for cancer treatment.
However, these agents, intended to block tumors' blood supply, may cause hypoxia, which …

Light-sheet microscopy for slide-free non-destructive pathology of large clinical specimens

AK Glaser, NP Reder, Y Chen, EF McCarty… - Nature biomedical …, 2017 - nature.com
For the 1.7 million patients per year in the US who receive a new cancer diagnosis,
treatment decisions are largely based on histopathological specimen examinations …

Through-skull fluorescence imaging of the brain in a new near-infrared window

G Hong, S Diao, J Chang, AL Antaris, C Chen… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
To date, brain imaging has largely relied on X-ray computed tomography and magnetic
resonance angiography, with their limited spatial resolution and long scanning times …

Optical coherence tomography based angiography

CL Chen, RK Wang - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based angiography (OCTA) provides in vivo, three-
dimensional vascular information by the use of flowing red blood cells as intrinsic contrast …