Photodynamic therapy: Innovative approaches for antibacterial and anticancer treatments

M Kolarikova, B Hosikova, H Dilenko… - Medicinal Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment mainly for cancer but also for bacterial
infections. This treatment dates back to 1900 when a German medical school graduate …

Photodynamic therapy: photosensitizers and nanostructures

A Escudero, C Carrillo-Carrión… - Materials Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The reactions of some structures to different external stimuli can be used for therapeutic
purposes. In particular, in photodynamic therapy (PDT), a light-sensitive compound or …

Photodynamic efficiency: from molecular photochemistry to cell death

IOL Bacellar, TM Tsubone, C Pavani… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a clinical modality used to treat cancer and infectious
diseases. The main agent is the photosensitizer (PS), which is excited by light and converted …

Boosting cancer therapy with organelle-targeted nanomaterials

P Gao, W Pan, N Li, B Tang - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2019 - ACS Publications
The ultimate goal of cancer therapy is to eliminate malignant tumors while causing no
damage to normal tissues. In the past decades, numerous nanoagents have been employed …

Nanomaterials-based photosensitizers and delivery systems for photodynamic cancer therapy

XT Yu, SY Sui, YX He, CH Yu, Q Peng - Biomaterials Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing cancer morbidity and mortality requires the development of high-efficiency
and low-toxicity anticancer approaches. In recent years, photodynamic therapy (PDT) has …

Advances on graphene-based nanomaterials for biomedical applications

Y Qu, F He, C Yu, X Liang, D Liang, L Ma… - Materials Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Graphene-based nanomaterials, such as graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide,
have been attracting increasing attention in the field of biology and biomedicine over the …

Click Synthesis Enabled Sulfur Atom Strategy for Polymerization‐Enhanced and Two‐Photon Photosensitization

C Li, J Liu, Y Hong, R Lin, Z Liu, M Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Facile tailoring of photosensitizers (PSs) with advanced and synergetic properties is highly
expected to broaden and deepen photodynamic therapy (PDT) applications. Herein, a …

Future of nanotherapeutics: Targeting the cellular sub-organelles

X Ma, N Gong, L Zhong, J Sun, XJ Liang - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Many diseases originate from alterations at nanoscale levels. Precise drug delivery should
be achieved not only at cell level, but also at organelle level to achieve maximum …

Fluorescent imaging‐guided chemotherapy‐and‐photodynamic dual therapy with nanoscale porphyrin metal–organic framework

W Liu, YM Wang, YH Li, SJ Cai, XB Yin, XW He… - small, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Imaging‐guided therapy systems (IGTSs) are revolutionary techniques used in cancer
treatment due to their safety and efficiency. IGTSs should have tunable compositions for …

High performance photosensitizers with aggregation-induced emission for image-guided photodynamic anticancer therapy

W Wu, D Mao, S Xu, S Ji, F Hu, D Ding, D Kong… - Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of D–A′–π–A type photosensitizers, AP3 and AP4, were designed and
synthesized to show strong aggregation-induced far red and near infrared emission and …