• Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT) - pre-clinical proof of principle for local drug delivery and enhanced uptake. 

      van Wamel, Annemieke; Healey, Andrew; Sontum, Per C.; Kvåle, Svein; Bush, Nigel; Bamber, Jeffrey; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Proof of principle for local drug delivery with Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT) was demonstrated in a human prostate adenocarcinoma growing in athymic mice, using near infrared (NIR) dyes as model molecules. A dispersion ...
    • Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT) enhances the therapeutic efficacy of paclitaxel and Abraxane® for treatment of human prostate adenocarcinoma in mice 

      van Wamel, Annemieke; Sontum, Per C.; Healey, Andrew; Kvåle, Svein; Bush, Nigel; Bamber, Jeffrey; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Acoustic cluster therapy (ACT) is a novel approach for ultrasound mediated, targeted drug delivery. In the current study, we have investigated ACT in combination with paclitaxel and Abraxane® for treatment of a subcutaneous ...
    • Augmenting drug-carrier compatibility improves tumour nanotherapy efficacy 

      Zhao, Yiming; Fay, Francois; Hak, Sjoerd; Manuel Perez-Aguilar, Jose; Sanchez-Gaytan, Brenda L; Goode, Brandon; Duivenvoorden, Raphael; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange; Bjørkøy, Astrid; Weinstein, Harel; Fayad, Zahi A; Perez-Medina, Carlos; Mulder, Willem J M (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      A major goal of cancer nanotherapy is to use nanoparticles as carriers for targeted delivery of anti-tumour agents. The drug–carrier association after intravenous administration is essential for efficient drug delivery to ...
    • Efficient Enhancement of Blood–Brain Barrier Permeability Using Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT) 

      Åslund, Karl Olof Andreas; Snipstad, Sofie; Healey, Andrew J.; Kvåle, Svein; Torp, Sverre Helge; Sontum, Per C.; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange; van Wamel, Annemieke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a major obstacle in drug delivery for diseases of the brain, and today there is no standardized route to surpass it. One technique to locally and transiently disrupt the BBB, is focused ...
    • Feasibility study of the permeability and uptake of mesoporous silica nanoparticles across the blood-brain barrier 

      Baghirov, Habib; Karaman, Didem Sen; Viitala, Tapani; Duchanoy, Alain; Lou, Yan-Ru; Mamaeva, Veronika; Pryazhnikov, Evgeny; Khiroug, Leonard; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange; Sahlgren, Cecilia; Rosenholm, Jessica M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Drug delivery into the brain is impeded by the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) that filters out the vast majority of drugs after systemic administration. In this work, we assessed the transport, uptake and cytotoxicity of promising ...
    • Labeling nanoparticles: Dye leakage and altered cellular uptake 

      Snipstad, Sofie; Hak, Sjoerd; Baghirov, Habib; Sulheim, Einar; Mørch, Ýrr Asbjørg; Lelu, Sylvie; von Haartman, Eva; Bäck, Marcus; Nilsson, Peter R; Klymchenko, Andrey S; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange; Åslund, Andreas (Journal article, 2016)
      In vitro and in vivo behavior of nanoparticles (NPs) is often studied by tracing the NPs with fluorescent dyes. This requires stable incorporation of dyes within the NPs, as dye leakage may give a wrong interpretation of ...
    • Nanomedicine and Sonopermeation in the Treatment of Cancer 

      Sulheim, Einar (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:98, Doctoral thesis, 2018)
      Treatment of cancer is an enormous challenge that involves multiple biological barriers and drugs with limited specificity, which makes treatment both ineffective and debilitating to the patient. One of the approaches that ...
    • Nanoparticle delivery to the brain - By focused ultrasound and self-assembled nanoparticle-stabilized microbubbles 

      Åslund, Andreas; Berg, Sigrid; Hak, Sjoerd; Mørch, Ýrr Asbjørg; Torp, Sverre Helge; Sandvig, Axel; Widerøe, Marius; Hansen, Rune; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange (Journal article, 2015)
      The blood–brain barrier (BBB) constitutes a significant obstacle for the delivery of drugs into the central nervous system (CNS). Nanoparticles have been able to partly overcome this obstacle and can thus improve drug ...
    • Nanoparticle-stabilized microbubbles for multimodal imaging and drug delivery 

      Mørch, Ýrr Asbjørg; Hansen, Rune; Berg, Sigrid; Åslund, Andreas; Glomm, Wilhelm; Eggen, Siv; Schmid, Ruth; Johnsen, Heidi; Kubowicz, Stephan; Snipstad, Sofie; Sulheim, Einar; Hak, Sjoerd; Singh, Gurvinder; McDonagh, Birgitte Hjelmeland; Blom, Hans; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange; Stenstad, Per Martin (Journal article, 2015)
      Microbubbles (MBs) are routinely used as contrast agents for ultrasound imaging. The use of ultrasound in combination with MBs has also attracted attention as a method to enhance drug delivery. We have developed a technology ...
    • Primary Porcine Brain Endothelial Cells as In Vitro Model to Study Effects of Ultrasound and Microbubbles on Blood-Brain Barrier Function 

      Lelu, Sylvie; Afadzi, Mercy; Berg, Sigrid; Åslund, Andreas; Torp, Sverre Helge; Sattler, Wolfgang; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Focused ultrasound in the presence of microbubbles transiently and reversibly opens the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in rodents and humans thereby providing a time window for increased drug delivery into brain tissue. To get ...
    • Shape Dependency in Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles for Biosensing Applications 

      Prestegård, Astrid (Master thesis, 2022)
      Covid-19 pandemien har demonstrert nødvendigheten av billige, robuste og sensitive biosensorer. Gull-nanopartikler av anisotrope former har unike optiske egenskaper, og har derfor potensiale til å radikalt forbedre dagens ...
    • The effect of poly(ethylene glycol) coating and monomer type on poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticle interactions with lipid monolayers and cells 

      Baghirov, Habib; Melikishvili, Sopio; Mørch, Yrr Asbjørg; Sulheim, Einar; Åslund, Andreas; Hianik, Tibor; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange (Journal article, 2017)
      The interaction of the promising drug carriers poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles (PACA NPs) with lipid monolayers modeling the cell membrane and with RBE4 immortalized rat brain endothelial cells was compared to ...
    • Ultrasound Improves the Delivery and Therapeutic Effect of Nanoparticle-Stabilized Microbubbles in Breast Cancer Xenografts 

      Snipstad, Sofie; Berg, Sigrid; Mørch, Ýrr Asbjørg; Bjørkøy, Astrid; Sulheim, Einar; Hansen, Rune; Grimstad, Ingeborg; van Wamel, Annemieke; Maaland, Astri Fjelde; Torp, Sverre Helge; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Compared with conventional chemotherapy, encapsulation of drugs in nanoparticles can improve efficacy and reduce toxicity. However, delivery of nanoparticles is often insufficient and heterogeneous because of various ...
    • Ultrasound-mediated delivery enhances therapeutic efficacy of MMP sensitive liposomes 

      Olsman, Marieke; Sereti, Viktoria; Andreassen, Kristine; Snipstad, Linn Sofie; van Wamel, Johanna Elisabeth Theodora; Eliasen, Rasmus; Berg, Sigrid; Urquhart, Andrew J.; Andresen, Thomas L.; Davies, Ruth Catharina de Lange (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      To improve therapeutic efficacy of nanocarrier drug delivery systems, it is essential to improve their uptake and penetration in tumour tissue, enhance cellular uptake and ensure efficient drug release at the tumour site. ...