The use of boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) in biomedicine is reviewed. To open, its
synthesis and regulatory strategies are summarized, and inspiring cutting‐edge work in post …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been used as an anti-tumor treatment method for a long
time and photosensitizers (PS) can be used in various types of tumors. Originally, light is an …

Conventional cancer treatment modalities are often associated with major therapeutic
limitations and severe side effects. Photodynamic therapy is a localized noninvasive mode …

The increasing impact of cancer on worldwide mortality makes the research of novel
chemotherapeutic agents a current and challenging issue. In the recent years, transition …

Cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) are
among the most important and abundant players of the tumor microenvironment. CAFs as …

Photodynamic nanomedicines have significantly enhanced the therapeutic efficacy of
photosensitizers (PSs) by overcoming critical limitations of PSs such as poor water solubility …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been used in recent years as a non-invasive treatment for
cancer, due to the side effects of traditional treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy, and …

Here, we report six novel, easily accessible BODIPY-based agents for cancer treatment. In
contrast to established photodynamic therapy (PDT) agents, these BODIPY-based …

For photodynamic therapy (PDT), traditional type II photosensitizers rely on local molecular
oxygen to produce highly cytotoxic singlet oxygen (1 O 2) to kill tumor cells, which is …

Nitric oxide (NO) is an endogenous, multipotent biological signaling molecule that
participates in several physiological processes. Recently, exogenous supplementation of …