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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 11, Issue 21, Pages 12915-12928Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0ra08727k
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81873898, 81960316]
- Gansu Province Key Talent Program [201939]
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This review explores the advances in ultrasound-nanobubble combined strategies for targeted cancer treatment. It discusses the composition and formulation parameters of NBs, interactions and biological effects of combining NBs and ultrasound, and the potential of NBs combined with US for targeted cancer therapeutics. The review also proposes present and future directions for improving current methods in this field.
The non-specific distribution, non-selectivity towards cancerous cells, and adverse off-target side effects of anticancer drugs and other therapeutic molecules lead to their inferior clinical efficacy. Accordingly, ultrasound-based targeted delivery of therapeutic molecules loaded in smart nanocarriers is currently gaining wider acceptance for the treatment and management of cancer. Nanobubbles (NBs) are nanosize carriers, which are currently used as effective drug/gene delivery systems because they can deliver drugs/genes selectively to target sites. Thus, combining the applications of ultrasound with NBs has recently demonstrated increased localization of anticancer molecules in tumor tissues with triggered release behavior. Consequently, an effective therapeutic concentration of drugs/genes is achieved in target tumor tissues with ultimately increased therapeutic efficacy and minimal side-effects on other non-cancerous tissues. This review illustrates present developments in the field of ultrasound-nanobubble combined strategies for targeted cancer treatment. The first part of this review discusses the composition and the formulation parameters of NBs. Next, we illustrate the interactions and biological effects of combining NBs and ultrasound. Subsequently, we explain the potential of NBs combined with US for targeted cancer therapeutics. Finally, the present and future directions for the improvement of current methods are proposed.
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