Sentences with phrase «microbubbles for»

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For example, superparamagnetic particles and chemotherapeutics drugs can be incorporated in the polymeric shelled microbubbles.

McDannold and his colleagues have been working for years on using focused ultrasound and microbubbles to disrupt the blood - brain barrier and deliver drugs to the brain.

If this type of therapy proves safe in humans, a syringe full of oxygen microbubbles could help avert brain damage and death for the victims of cardiac arrest, asthma attacks, strokes, and injuries to the lungs, airway, or face.

In addition, the microbubbles and the ultrasound used in the experiments are very similar to those routinely used for diagnostics in humans.

Recanalization rates improved from 36 % for half dose tPA alone to 83 % with the addition of ultrasound / microbubbles.

The clinical trial will help to determine if the early microbubble intervention results in overall better outcomes for patients.

This is compared with 50 % recanalization for ultrasound / microbubbles alone or full - dose tPA alone.

NTU's microbubbles were successfully tested in mice and the study has been published by the Nature Publishing Group in Asia Materials, the top journal for materials sciences in the Asia - Pacific region.

Akadeum's groundbreaking microbubble technology — which allows for fast, easy removal of target cells from biological...

I had been interviewed for a BBC documentary on my work to use microbubbles to improve cancer treatment, and that's when I got a call from my collaborator Ray Averre of Avrox Technologies to ask if it would be possible to make a sports drink using tiny bubbles of oxygen.

For retailers that offer natural grooming services, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - based Thera - Clean offers microbubble technology.

A strategy based on recent research for producing microbubbles appears to be the best option for large - scale use.»

(Brennen, 1995) In gas - free water, the pressure due to interfacial curvature rapidly drives micron - sized bubbles into solution, but in air - saturated water (22 mg l - 1 at STP), but in the presence of film - forming impurities, either present naturally or intentionally added, microbubbles may last for tens to hundreds of seconds.