Bi-modal cancer treatment utilizing therapeutic ultrasound and an engineered therapeutic nanobubble

Santosh K. Misra, Goutam Ghoshal, Tor W. Jensen, Partha S. Ray, Everette C. Burdette, Dipanjan Pan

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Abstract

Herein we report a bi-modal cancer treatment technique using therapeutic ultrasound in the presence of a novel sorafenib loaded nanobubble for hepatocellular carcinoma. Therapeutic ultrasound was used for improving fusion-triggered drug release from nanobubbles leading to enhanced cytotoxicity in HepG2 cells by greater than two folds improvement in IC50 values. This strategy could also be made compatible with catheter-based devices to derive a highly localized treatment approach, a concept that might be extendable to metastatic cancers as well.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)63839-63845
Number of pages7
JournalRSC Advances
Volume5
Issue number78
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Chemistry
  • General Chemical Engineering

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