Focused ultrasound-mediated drug delivery to pancreatic cancer in a mouse model

Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rapoport, Natalya ^a   Payne, Allison ^b   Dillon, Christopher ^a   Shea, Jill ^b   Scaife, Courtney ^b   Gupta, Roohi ^a,c  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MRgFUS; Pancreatic cancer; Perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions; Ultrasound mediated drug delivery

Indexed keywords

GEMCITABINE; PACLITAXEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NANOEMULSION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 85013810435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20505736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2050-5736-1-11     Document Type: Article

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