Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Perfluorocarbon regulates the intratumoural environment to enhance hypoxia-based agent efficacy

  • Wenguang Wang,
  • Yuhao Cheng,
  • Peng Yu,
  • Haoran Wang,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Haiheng Xu,
  • Qingsong Ye,
  • Ahu Yuan,
  • Yiqiao Hu,
  • Jinhui Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09389-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Hypoxia-based agents need permeable and hypoxic intratumour environment to be effective. Here, the authors show that perfluorocarbon nanoparticles promote increased permeability and sustained hypoxia to improve accumulation of hypoxia-based agents, and inhibit intratumour oxygen reperfusion.