• Effect of acoustic cluster therapy (ACT®) combined with chemotherapy in a patient-derived xenograft mouse model of pancreatic cancer 

      Ng, Serina; Healey, Andrew J.; Sontum, Per Christian; Kvåle, Svein; Torp, Sverre Helge; Sulheim, Einar; Von Hoff, Daniel; Han, Haiyoung (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas respond poorly to chemotherapy, in part due to the dense tumor stroma that hinders drug delivery. Ultrasound (US) in combination with microbubbles has previously shown promise as a means ...
    • Intraperitoneal administration of cabazitaxel-loaded nanoparticles in peritoneal metastasis models 

      Hyldbakk, Astrid; Fleten, Karianne Giller; Snipstad, Sofie; Åslund, Andreas; Davies, Catharina de Lange; Flatmark, Kjersti; Mørch, Ýrr Asbjørg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Colorectal and ovarian cancers frequently develop peritoneal metastases with few treatment options. Intraperitoneal chemotherapy has shown promising therapeutic effects, but is limited by rapid drug clearance and systemic ...
    • Sonopermeation Enhances Uptake and Therapeutic Effect of Free and Encapsulated Cabazitaxel 

      Snipstad, Sofie; Mørch, Ýrr; Sulheim, Einar; Åslund, Andreas; Pedersen, André; Hansen, Rune; Davies, Catharina de Lange; Berg, Sigrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Delivery of drugs and nanomedicines to tumors is often heterogeneous and insufficient and, thus, of limited efficacy. Microbubbles in combination with ultrasound have been found to improve delivery to tumors, enhancing ...
    • Ultrafast Microscopy Imaging of Acoustic Cluster Therapy Bubbles: Activation and Oscillation 

      van Wamel, Annemieke; Mühlenpfordt, Melina; Hansen, Rune; Healey, Andrew; Villanueva, Flordeliza S.; Kotopoulis, Spiros; Davies, Catharina de Lange; Chen, Xucai (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT®) is a platform for improving drug delivery and has had promising pre-clinical results. A clinical trial is ongoing. ACT® is based on microclusters of microbubbles–microdroplets that, when ...
    • Ultrasound-Mediated Delivery of Chemotherapy into the Transgenic Adenocarcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Model 

      Fagerland, Stein-Martin Tilrum; Berg, Sigrid; Hill, Deborah Katherine; Snipstad, Sofie; Sulheim, Einar; Hyldbakk, Astrid; Kim, Jana; Davies, Catharina de Lange (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Ultrasound (US) in combination with microbubbles (MB) has had promising results in improving delivery of chemotherapeutic agents. However, most studies are done in immunodeficient mice with xenografted tumors. We used two ...