Cavitation-Enhanced Drug Delivery and Immunotherapy, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2024) | Viewed by 1350
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ultrasound; focused ultrasound; ultrasound contrast agents; drug delivery; sonoporation; sonopermeation
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Interests: ultrasound-mediated drug delivery; cavitation monitoring techniques
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the second volume of this Special Issue intended to highlight new developments in Cavitation-Enhanced Drug Delivery and Immunotherapy. This rapidly evolving field has been buoyed in recent years by the development of methods harnessing the activity of ultrasound-stimulated bubbles known as cavitation. When properly controlled, cavitation can help overcome physical barriers to drug delivery whilst providing readily measurable information for timely quantitative feedback and treatment guidance. Microbubble-assisted therapies have demonstrated impressive advancements in clinical trials and pre-clinical areas, including applications in neurology, oncology, cardiology, and beyond.
This Special Issue will cover topics including the design of new cavitation nuclei constructs, cavitation-assisted immunotherapies and immunomodulation, targeted drug or gene delivery, and dual microbubble imaging and therapeutic approaches. In addition to manuscripts that investigate applications in drug delivery and immunotherapy, we also welcome numerical and/or experimental mechanistic studies, including but not limited to single-cell or single-bubble studies that glean insight into the biophysics of this technology.
This Special Issue is open to original research and review articles. Prospective authors are encouraged to view the first volume (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pharmaceutics/special_issues/Microbubbles_Delivery) to see the scope of the article's subject matter. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Shashank Sirsi
Dr. Michael Gray
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- ultrasound
- microbubbles
- immunotherapy
- sonoporation
- cavitation
- targeted drug delivery
- acoustics
- focused ultrasound
- immunomodulation
