Ultrasound and microbubble mediated therapeutic delivery: Underlying mechanisms and future outlook

SM Chowdhury, L Abou-Elkacem, T Lee, J Dahl… - Journal of controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Beyond the emerging field of oncological ultrasound molecular imaging, the recent significant
advancements in ultrasound and contrast agent technology have paved the way for …

Ultrasound molecular imaging: Moving toward clinical translation

L Abou-Elkacem, SV Bachawal, JK Willmann - European journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is a widely available, cost-effective, real-time, non-invasive and safe imaging
modality widely used in the clinic for anatomical and functional imaging. With the introduction of …

Regorafenib inhibits growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis in a highly aggressive, orthotopic colon cancer model

L Abou-Elkacem, S Arns, G Brix, F Gremse… - Molecular cancer …, 2013 - AACR
The combination of target-specific drugs like bevacizumab with chemotherapeutics has
improved treatment efficacy in advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the clinical …

Seeing the invisible—ultrasound molecular imaging

A Kosareva, L Abou-Elkacem, S Chowdhury… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ultrasound molecular imaging has been developed in the past two decades with the goal of
non-invasively imaging disease phenotypes on a cellular level not depicted on anatomic …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of integrin αvβ6 cystine knot PET tracers to detect cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

…, HH Guo, T Haywood, L Abou-Elkacem… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Advances in precision molecular imaging promise to transform our ability to detect, diagnose
and treat disease. Here, we describe the engineering and validation of a new cystine knot …

Ultrasound-guided therapeutic modulation of hepatocellular carcinoma using complementary microRNAs

…, R Devulapally, JW Choe, L Abou Elkacem… - Journal of Controlled …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment options for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are limited, in
particular in advanced and drug resistant HCC. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are non-coding small …

[HTML][HTML] Spectroscopic photoacoustic molecular imaging of breast cancer using a B7-H3-targeted ICG contrast agent

KE Wilson, SV Bachawal, L Abou-Elkacem… - Theranostics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose: Breast cancer imaging methods lack diagnostic accuracy, in particular for patients
with dense breast tissue, and improved techniques are critically needed. The purpose of this …

Loss of Rnf43 accelerates Kras-mediated neoplasia and remodels the tumor immune microenvironment in pancreatic adenocarcinoma

…, A Singhi, CL Haymaker, H Clevers, L Abou-Elkacem… - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims RNF43 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that is recurrently mutated in pancreatic
ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and precursor cystic neoplasms of the pancreas. The …

Visualization of small-diameter vessels by reduction of incoherent reverberation with coherent flow power doppler

YL Li, D Hyun, L Abou-Elkacem… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power Doppler (PD) imaging is a widely used technique for flow detection. Despite the wide
use of Doppler ultrasound, limitations exist in the ability of Doppler ultrasound to assess …

Bioinspired preservation of natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy

R El Assal, L AbouElkacem, A Tocchio… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to cryopreserve natural killer (NK) cells has a significant potential in modern cancer
immunotherapy. Current cryopreservation protocols cause deterioration in NK cell viability …