Therapeutic oxygen delivery by perfluorocarbon-based colloids

MP Krafft, JG Riess - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
After the protocol-related indecisive clinical trial of Oxygent, a perfluorooctylbromide/
phospholipid nanoemulsion, in cardiac surgery, that often unduly assigned the observed …

Recent advances in applications of droplet microfluidics

WL Chou, PY Lee, CL Yang, WY Huang, YS Lin - Micromachines, 2015 - mdpi.com
Droplet-based microfluidics is a colloidal and interfacial system that has rapidly progressed
in the past decade because of the advantages of low fabrication costs, small sample …

Dynamically reconfigurable complex emulsions via tunable interfacial tensions

LD Zarzar, V Sresht, EM Sletten, JA Kalow… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Emulsification is a powerful, well-known technique for mixing and dispersing immiscible
components within a continuous liquid phase. Consequently, emulsions are central …

Low-intensity focused ultrasound-responsive phase-transitional nanoparticles for thrombolysis without vascular damage: a synergistic nonpharmaceutical strategy

Y Zhong, Y Zhang, J Xu, J Zhou, J Liu, M Ye, L Zhang… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Multimodal molecular imaging has shown promise as a complementary approach to
thrombus detection. However, the simultaneous noninvasive detection and lysis of thrombi …

Acoustic microcannons: toward advanced microballistics

F Soto, A Martin, S Ibsen, M Vaidyanathan… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Acoustically triggered microcannons, capable of loading and firing nanobullets (Nbs), are
presented as powerful microballistic tools. Hollow conically shaped microcannon structures …

Review on acoustic droplet vaporization in ultrasound diagnostics and therapeutics

K Loskutova, D Grishenkov… - BioMed research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV) is the physical process in which liquid undergoes phase
transition to gas after exposure to a pressure amplitude above a certain threshold. In recent …

Microfluidics as a cutting-edge technique for drug delivery applications

F Fontana, MPA Ferreira, A Correia, J Hirvonen… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
The need for new and more advanced drug delivery systems (DDS) is currently in demand
for efficient delivery of the therapeutics to the desirable tissues/cells, improved drug …

Release of basic fibroblast growth factor from acoustically-responsive scaffolds promotes therapeutic angiogenesis in the hind limb ischemia model

H Jin, C Quesada, M Aliabouzar, OD Kripfgans… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pro-angiogenic growth factors have been studied as potential therapeutics for
cardiovascular diseases like critical limb ischemia (CLI). However, the translation of these …

[HTML][HTML] Colloids, nanoparticles, and materials for imaging, delivery, ablation, and theranostics by focused ultrasound (FUS)

A Yildirim, NT Blum, AP Goodwin - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This review focuses on different materials and contrast agents that sensitize imaging and
therapy with Focused Ultrasound (FUS). At high intensities, FUS is capable of selectively …

Ultrasound-Guided Cytosolic Protein Delivery via Transient Fluorous Masks

JN Sloand, TT Nguyen, SA Zinck, EC Cook… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The inability to spatiotemporally guide proteins in tissues and efficiently deliver them into
cells remains a key barrier to realizing their full potential in precision medicine. Here, we …