Focused ultrasound-mediated drug delivery from microbubbles reduces drug dose necessary for therapeutic effect on neointima formation-brief report

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2853-2855

  Phillips, Linsey C ^a   Dhanaliwala, Ali H ^a   Klibanov, Alexander L ^a,b   Hossack, John A ^a,b   Wamhoff, Brian R ^a,b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

angioplasty; coronary artery disease; intravascular ultrasound Doppler; microbubbles; restenosis

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG MEGADOSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MICROBUBBLE; NEOINTIMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BALLOON DILATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CELL DIVISION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOINTIMA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIROLIMUS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 81755166356     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: 15244636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.111.238170     Document Type: Article

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