This review presents a robust strategy to design photosensitizers (PSs) for various species.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemical-based treatment approach that involves the …

Photoactivatable (alternatively, photoremovable, photoreleasable, or photocleavable)
protecting groups (PPGs), also known as caged or photocaged compounds, are used to …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) utilizes light-activated photosensitizers (PSs) to generate toxic
species for therapeutics. It has become an emerging solution for cancer treatment because …

More than four decades have passed since the first example of a light-activated (caged)
compound was described. In the intervening years, a large number of light-responsive …

Abstract Photo Dynamic Therapy (PDT) is regarded as an effective therapeutic approach for
cancer, which employs light and photosensitizing chemical substances. The successful …

Recently, molecularly fluorophores for nanotheranostics, bridging in vivo imaging and
therapeutic capability within unimolecular system, has attracted increasing attention …

Prodrugs have emerged as a major strategy for addressing clinical challenges by improving
drug pharmacokinetics, reducing toxicity, and enhancing treatment efficacy. The emergence …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method of cancer treatment that leads to the disintegration
of cancer cells and has developed significantly in recent years. The clinically used …

Light, oxygen and photosensitizers (PSs) are the three separate elements that have been
applied in combination in the phototherapy of cancers in the past decades. Currently …

To design anti-photobleaching photothermal agents (PTAs) is of great significance for tumor
photothermal therapy (PTT). Heptamethine cyanine (Cy7) dyes as one of near-infrared (NIR) …