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  2. Antitumor Efficacy of Focused Ultrasound-MFL Nanoparticles Combination Therapy in Mouse Breast Cancer Xenografts

Antitumor Efficacy of Focused Ultrasound-MFL Nanoparticles Combination Therapy in Mouse Breast Cancer Xenografts

  • Materials (Basel). 2020 Mar 2;13(5):1099. doi: 10.3390/ma13051099.
Daehyun Kim 1 2 3 Junhee Han 4 So Yeon Park 3 Heegon Kim 4 Ji-Ho Park 4 Hak Jong Lee 1 2 3
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Nano Science and Technology, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea.
  • 2 Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 82 Gumi-ro 173, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 13620, Korea.
  • 3 IMGT Co., Ltd., Seongnam 13605, Korea.
  • 4 Department of Bio and Brain Engineering and KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Abstract

High doses of chemotherapy agents can cause adverse effects. To address this issue, drug-loaded vesicles with minimum drug loss, guided by an external element for precise delivery, are desired. Combinational therapy of both a focused ultrasound-induced drug delivery method and membrane fusogenic liposomes (MFLs) as drug delivery vehicles can satisfy such premises. In this study, we confirmed that the use of a small quantity of docetaxel-loaded membrane fusogenic liposomes (DTX-MFL) with focused ultrasound can induce better antitumor response in a xenograft mouse model compared to conventional docetaxel monotherapy and DTX-MFL only.

Keywords

cancer; liposome; ultrasound.

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