STAT3 decoy oligonucleotide-carrying microbubbles with pulsed ultrasound for enhanced therapeutic effect in head and neck tumors

• Thiruganesh Ramasamy,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Xucai Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Bin Qin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Daniel E. Johnson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Jennifer R. Grandis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Flordeliza S. Villanueva

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: villanuevafs@upmc.edu

  Affiliation Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3980-9176

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