Recent advances in photonanomedicines for enhanced cancer photodynamic therapy

JJ Hu, Q Lei, XZ Zhang - Progress in Materials Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, photodynamic therapy (PDT) that employs photosensitizers (PSs) to generate
cytotoxic species under light irradiation for selective destruction of neoplastic lesions has …

[HTML][HTML] The role of bacteria in cancer therapy–enemies in the past, but allies at present

S Song, MS Vuai, M Zhong - Infectious agents and cancer, 2018 - Springer
In recent decades, bacteria's therapeutic role has aroused attention in medicinal and
pharmaceutical research. While bacteria are considered among the primary agents for …

Oral delivery of bacteria: Basic principles and biomedical applications

S Li, W Jiang, C Zheng, D Shao, Y Liu, S Huang… - Journal of controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bacterial therapy, which presents a smart platform for delivering and producing therapeutic
agents, as monotherapy or in combination with other therapeutic modes, has provided a …

Bacteriotherapy in gastrointestinal cancer

S Soleimanpour, SM Hasanian, A Avan, A Yaghoubi… - Life sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The most prevalent gastrointestinal (GI) cancers include colorectal cancer, stomach cancer,
and liver cancer, known as the most common causes of cancer-related death in both men …

Bacteria and cancer: Different sides of the same coin

G Laliani, SG Sorboni, R Lari, A Yaghoubi… - Life sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional cancer therapies such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and
immunotherapy due to the complexity of cancer have been unsuccessful in the complete …

[HTML][HTML] The role played by bacterial infections in the onset and metastasis of cancer

S Khatun, T Appidi, AK Rengan - Current Research in Microbial Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding various responses of cells towards change in their external environment,
presence of other species and is important in identifying and correlating the mechanisms …

Photodynamic therapy-improved oncolytic bacterial immunotherapy with FAP-encoding S. typhimurium

Y Guo, M Song, X Liu, Y Chen, Z Xun, Y Sun… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Genetically engineered bacterial cancer therapy presents several advantages over
conventional therapies. However, the anticancer effects of bacterium-based therapies …

[HTML][HTML] KillerOrange, a genetically encoded photosensitizer activated by blue and green light

KS Sarkisyan, OA Zlobovskaya, DA Gorbachev… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Genetically encoded photosensitizers, proteins that produce reactive oxygen species when
illuminated with visible light, are increasingly used as optogenetic tools. Their applications …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the genetically engineered KillerRed for photodynamic therapy applications

J Liu, F Wang, Y Qin, X Feng - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a clinical treatment for cancer or non-neoplastic diseases,
and the photosensitizers (PSs) are crucial for PDT efficiency. The commonly used chemical …

Development of a carbon dot and methylene blue NIR-emitting FLIM-FRET pair in niosomes for controlled ROS generation

A Chatterjee, AK Sharma, P Purkayastha - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Non-ionic surfactant vesicular systems (niosomes) are structurally similar to lipid vesicles,
differing only in the bilayer composition. Herein we report a unique method to generate …