Publications

San Valentin EM, Damasco JA, Bernardino M, Court KA, Godin B, Canlas GM, Melancon A, Chintalapani G, Jacobsen MC, Norton W, Layman RR, Fowlkes N, Chen SR, Huang SY, Melancon MP. Image-guided deployment and monitoring of a novel tungsten nanoparticle-infused radiopaque absorbable inferior vena cava filter in pigs. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2023.09.003 PMID: 36798362; PMCID: PMC9934538.

Klusman C, Martin B, Perez JVD, Barcena AJR, Bernardino MR, San Valentin EMD, Damasco JA, Mundo HCD, Court K, Godin B, Fowlkes N, Bouchard R, Cheng J, Huang SY, Melancon MP. Rosuvastatin-Eluting Gold-Nanoparticle-Loaded Perivascular Wrap for Enhanced Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation in a Murine Model. Adv. Fiber Mater. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-023-00315-2

Barcena AJR, Perez JVD, Damasco JA, Bernardino MR, San Valentin EMD, Klusman C, Martin B, Cortes A, Canlas G, Del Mundo HC, Heralde FM, Avritscher R, Fowlkes N, Bouchard RR, Cheng J, Huang SY, Melancon MP.  Gold Nanoparticles for Monitoring of Mesenchymal Stem-Cell-Loaded Bioresorbable Polymeric Wraps for Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2023; 24(14):11754. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241411754 

Barcena AJR, Perez JVD, Bernardino MR, Damasco JA, Cortes A, Del Mundo HC, San Valentin EMD, Klusman C, Canlas GM, Heralde FM, Avritscher R, Fowlkes N, Bouchard RR, Cheng J, Huang SY, Melancon MP. Bioresorbable Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Loaded Electrospun Polymeric Scaffold Inhibits Neointimal Hyperplasia Following Arteriovenous Fistula Formation in A Rat Model of Chronic Kidney Disease. Adv Healthc Mater:e2300960. e-Pub 7/2023. PMID: 37395729.

Barcena A, Perez JD, Damasco JA, Bernardino MR, Del Mundo H, Klusman C, Mu A, San Valentin E, Fowlkes N, Cheng J, Huang S, Melancon MP. Gold Nanoparticles for Monitoring of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Loaded Bioresorbable Polymeric Wraps for Arteriovenous Fistulas. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. e-Pub 7/2023.

Damasco JA, Yu G, Perez J, Lin S-C, Whitley EM, Yu-Lee L-Y, Lin S-H, Melancon MP. Bone-specific delivery of cabozantinib for prostate cancer bone metastasis treatment. Talanta 256:124308, 5/2023. e-Pub 1/2023. PMCID: PMC10031627.

San Valentin EMD, Barcena AJR, Klusman C, Martin B, Melancon MP. Nano-embedded medical devices and delivery systems in interventional radiology. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Nanomed Nanobiotechnol:e1841, 1/2023. e-Pub 8/2022. PMID: 35946543.

Damasco JA, Huang SY, Perez JVD, Manongdo JAT, Dixon KA, Williams ML, Jacobsen MC, Barbosa R, Canlas GM, Chintalapani G, Melancon AD, Layman RR, Fowlkes NW, Whitley EM, Melancon MP. Bismuth Nanoparticle and Polyhydroxybutyrate Coatings Enhance the Radiopacity of Absorbable Inferior Vena Cava Filters for Fluoroscopy-Guided Placement and Longitudinal Computed Tomography Monitoring in Pigs. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 8(4):1676-1685, 4/2022. e-Pub 3/2022. PMID: 35343679.

Rana M, Melancon MP. Emerging Polymer Materials in Trackable Endovascular Embolization and Cell Delivery: From Hype to Hope. Biomimetics Journal 7(2):77, 6/2022. e-Pub 6/2022. PMCID: PMCPMC9221114.

Barcena AJ, Perez JD, Liu O, Mu A, Heralde F, Huang SY, Melancon MP. Localized perivascular therapeutic approaches to inhibit venous neointimal hyperplasia in arteriovenous fistula access for hemodialysis use. Biomolecules 12(10):1367, 9/2022. PMID: 36291576.

Barcena A, Perez JD, Bernardino MR, Damasco JA, Cortez A, San Valentin E, Del Mundo H, Avritscher R, Fowlkes N, Cheng J, Huang S, Melancon MP. Bioresorbable Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Loaded Electrospun Polymeric Scaffold Inhibits Neointima Hyperplasia in a Rat Model of Arteriovenous Fistula. BioRxiv, 11/2022. e-Pub 11/2022.

Melancon MP, Yevich S, Avritscher R, Swigost A, Lu L, Tian L, Damasco J, Dixon K, Munoz N, Dong L, Liu D, Tam AL. A Novel Lipiodol-Irinotecan Nanoemulsion for Intravascular Administration: Pharmacokinetics and Biodistribution in the Normal and Tumor Bearing Rat Liver. Drug Delivery 28(1):240-251, 1/2021. e-Pub 12/2020. PMID: 33501859.

Hagaman DE, Damasco JA, Perez JD, Rojo RD, Melancon MP. Recent Advances in Nanomedicine for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis. Molecules 26(2):384, 1/2021. e-Pub 1/2021. PMCID: PMCPMC7828457.

Rojo RD, Perez JV, Damasco JA, Yu G, Lin S-C, Heralde FM, Santos EB, Lin S-H, and Melancon MP. Combinatorial effect of radium-223 and irreversible electroporation on prostate cancer bone metastasis in mice. International Journal of Hyperthermia 38(1):650-662, 2/2021. PMID: 33882773.

Vardaki I, Corn P, Gentile E , Song JH, Madan N, Hoang A, Parikh N, Guerra L, Lee Y-C, Lin S-C, Yu G, Santos E, Melancon MP, Troncoso P, Navone N, Gallick GE, Efstathiou E, Subudhi SK, Lin S-H, Logothetis CJ, Panaretakis T. Radium 223 treatment increase immune checkpoint expression in extracellular vesicles from the metastatic prostate cancer bone microenvironment. Clinical Cancer Research 27(11):3253-3264, 2021, 3/2021. PMID: 33753455.

Sheth RA, Wen X, Li J, Pasuelo MJ, Ji X, Wang A, Hsiao C, Chow D, Whitley E, Li C and Gupta S. Doxorubicin‑loaded hollow gold nanospheres for dual photothermal ablation and chemoembolization therapy. Cancer Nanotechnology 11(6):1635, 6/2020. e-Pub 6/2020.

Huang SY, Damasco JA, Tian L, Lu L, Dixon K, Williams M, Eggers M, Melancon AD, Layman RR, Whitley EM, Melancon MP. In vivo performance of gold nanoparticle-loaded absorbable inferior vena cava filters in a swine model. Biomaterials Science 8:3966-3978, 6/2020. e-Pub 6/2020. PMID: 32558854.

Perez JA, Jacobsen M, Damasco J, Huang S, Melancon A, Layman R, Melancon MP. Optimization of the differentiation and quantification of high Z nanoparticles incorporated in medical devices for CT-guided interventions. Medical Physics 48(1):300-312, 11/2020. e-Pub 11/2020.

Damasco JA, Ravi S, Perez JD, Hagaman DE, Melancon MP. Understanding Nanoparticle Toxicity to Direct a Safe-by-Design Approach in Cancer Nanomedicine. Nanomaterials (Basel) 10(11), 11/2020. e-Pub 11/2020. PMID: 33147800.

Perez JD, Singhana S, Damasco J, Lu L, Behlau P, Rojo R, Whitley E, Heralde F, Melancon A, Huang S, Melancon MP. Radiopaque scaffolds based on electrospun iodixanol/polycaprolactone nanofibrous composites. Materialia 14:100874, 12/2020. e-Pub .

Zhao J, Wen X, Tian L, Li T, Xu C, Wen X, Melancon MP, Gupta S, Shen B, Peng W, Li C. Irreversible electroporation reverses resistance to immune checkpoint blockade in pancreatic cancer. Nat Commun 10(899):1-14, 2/2019. e-Pub 2/2019. PMCID: PMC6385305.

Tian L, Wang L, Qiao Y, Lu L, Lee P, Chang A, Ravi S, Rogers TA, Pasuelo MJ. Antitumor efficacy of liposome-encapsulated NVP-BEZ235 combined with irreversible electroporation for head and neck cancer. Molecules 24(19):3560, 10/2019. e-Pub 10/2019. PMID: 31581445.

Lin M, Paolillo V, Ta RT, Damasco J, Rojo RD, Carl JC, Melancon MP, Ravizzini GC, Le DB, Santos EB. Fully Automated Preparation of 68Ga-PSMA-11 at Curie Level Quantity Using Cyclotron-Produced 68Ga for Clinical Applications. Appl Radiat Isot 155:108936, 1/2020. e-Pub 10/2019. PMID: 31655351.

Avritscher R, Jo N, Polak U, Cortes AC, Nishiofuku H, Odisio BC, Takaki H, Tam AL, Pasuelo MJ, Yevich S, Qayyum A, Kaseb A, Kichikawa K, Gupta S, Goldberg SN, Chang SH. Hepatic arterial bland embolization increases Th17 cell infiltration in a syngeneic rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 43(2):311-321, 2/2020. e-Pub 10/2019. PMID: 31591689.

Tian L, Qiao Y, Lee P, Wang L, Chang A, Ravi S, Lu L, Singhana B, Zhao J, Melancon MP. Antitumor efficacy of liposome-encapsulated NVP-BEZ 235 in combination with irreversible electroporation. Drug Delivery 25(1):668-678, 2018. e-Pub 2/2018. PMCID: PMCPMC6058606.

Tian L, Lu L, Feng J, Melancon MP. Radiopaque nano and polymeric materials for atherosclerosis imaging, embolisation and other catheterization procedures. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 8(3):360-370, 5/2018. PMCID: PMCPMC5990339.

Qiao Y, Gumin G, Maclellan C, Wallace M, Bouchard R, Lang F, Stafford RJ, Melancon MP. Magnetic resonance and photoacoustic imaging for treatment planning of brain tumor mediated by mesenchymal stem cell-labeled with multifunctional nanoparticle. Nanotechnology 29(16):165101, 4/2018. e-Pub 2/2018. PMCID: PMCPMC5863233.

Tian L, Lee P, Singhana B, Chen A, Qiao Y, Lu L, Martinez J, Tasciotti E, Jacobsen MC, Melancon A, McArthur M, Eggers M, Huang S, Melancon MP. In vivo imaging of radiopaque resorbable inferior vena cava filter infused with gold nanoparticles. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE 10576(105762S), 2/2018. e-Pub 2/2018.

Cao Q, Yan X, Chen K, Huang Q, Melancon MP, Lopez G, Cheng Z, Li C. Macrophages as a Potential Tumor-Microenvironment Target for Noninvasive Imaging of Early Response to Anticancer Therapy. Biomaterials 152:63-76, 1/2018. e-Pub 10/2017. PMCID: PMC5693615.

Melancon MP, Appleton Figueira T, Fuentes DT, Tian L, Qiao Y, Gu J, Gagea M, Ensor JE, Muñoz NM, Maldonado KL, Dixon K, McWatters A, Mitchell J, McArthur M, Gupta S, Tam AL. Development of an Electroporation and Nanoparticle-based Therapeutic Platform for Bone Metastases. Radiology 286(1):161721, 1/2018. e-Pub 8/2017. PMID: 28825892.

Huang SY, Eggers M, McArthur MJ, Dixon KA, McWatters A, Dria S, Hill LR, Melancon MP, Steele JR, Wallace MJ. Safety and Efficacy of an Absorbable Filter in the Inferior Vena Cava to Prevent Pulmonary Embolism in Swine. Radiology 285(3):161880, 12/2017. e-Pub 7/2017. PMCID: PMC5708283.

Tian L, Lee P, Singhana B, Chen A, Qiao Y, Lu L, Martinez JO, Tasciotti E, Melancon A, Huang S, Eggers M, Melancon MP. Radiopaque Resorbable Inferior Vena Cava Filter Infused with Gold Nanoparticles. Sci Rep 7(1):2147, 5/2017. e-Pub 5/2017. PMCID: PMC5438341.

Tian L, Chang A, Melancon MP. Exploring gold nanoparticle interactions with proteins and the tumor microenvironment in biological systems. Transl Cancer Res 6(Suppl 2):S309-S312, 3/2017. e-Pub 3/2017. PMCID: PMC5497297.

Tian L, Lu L, Qiao Y, Ravi S, Salatan F, Melancon MP. Stimuli-responsive gold nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and therapy. J Funct Biomater 7(3), 2016. e-Pub 7/2016. PMID: 27455336.

Zhou M, Melancon MP, Stafford RJ, Li J, Nick AM, Tian M, Sood AK, Li C. Precision Nanomedicine Using Dual Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Temperature Imaging-Guided Photothermal Therapy. J Nucl Med 57(11):1778-1783, 11/2016. e-Pub 6/2016. PMCID: PMC5093070.

Hosoya H, Dobroff AS, Driessen WH, Cristini V, Brinker LM, Staquicini FI, Cardó-Vila M, D'Angelo S, Ferrara F, Proneth B, Lin YS, Dunphy DR, Dogra P, Melancon MP, Stafford RJ, Miyazono K, Gelovani JG, Kataoka K, Brinker CJ, Sidman RL, Arap W, Pasqualini R. Integrated nanotechnology platform for tumor-targeted multimodal imaging and therapeutic cargo release. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113(7):1877-82, 2/2016. e-Pub 2/2016. PMCID: PMC4763738.

Tam AL, Melancon MP, Abdelsalam M, Figueira TA, Dixon K, McWatters A, Zhou M, Huang Q, Mawlawi O, Dunner K, Li C, Gupta S. Imaging Intratumoral Nanoparticle Uptake after Combining Nanoembolization with Various Ablative Therapies in Hepatic VX2 Rabbit Tumors. J Biomed Nanotechnol 12(2):296-307, 2/2016. PMCID: PMC5069970.