Enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of doxorubicin by therapeutic ultrasound
Periodo
Dal 01/01/2017
Coordinatore/trice
Loredana Serpe
Aree / Gruppi di ricerca
Partecipanti al progetto
- Serpe Loredana (Coordinatore/trice)
- Canaparo Roberto (Ricercatore/trice)
Descrizione del progetto
Members:
Prof. Enzo Terreno (PA, DMBHS)
Members of other units:
Gianni Durando e Adriano Troia (National Institute of Metrological Research, Torino, Italy)
Sponsors: Compagnia San Paolo
Description:
We aim at investigating the efficacy of therapeutic ultrasound in enhancing the doxorubicin anticancer activity. Therefore, we are interested in verifying the hypothesis that doxorubicin might act as an ultrasound responsive agent (sonosensitizer) in in vitro and in vivo cancer models.
Keywords: Therapeutic ultrasound, doxorubicin, sonodynamic treatment, cancer