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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 63839-63845 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | RSC Advances |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 78 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Chemistry
- General Chemical Engineering