Photodynamic therapy review: principles, photosensitizers, applications, and future directions

JH Correia, JA Rodrigues, S Pimenta, T Dong, Z Yang - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive therapeutic modality that has gained
great attention in the past years as a new therapy for cancer treatment. PDT uses …

Near-infrared metal agents assisting precision medicine: from strategic design to bioimaging and therapeutic applications

C Li, Y Pang, Y Xu, M Lu, L Tu, Q Li… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal agents have made incredible strides in preclinical research and clinical applications in
recent years, but their short emission/absorption wavelengths continue to be a barrier to …

Engineered metallacycle‐based supramolecular Photosensitizers for effective Photodynamic Therapy

L Tu, C Li, X Xiong, J Hyeon Kim, Q Li, L Mei… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although metallacycle‐based supramolecular photosensitizers (PSs) have attracted
increasing attention in biomedicine, their clinical translation is still hindered by their inherent …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in photosensitizers as multifunctional theranostic agents for imaging-guided photodynamic therapy of cancer

P Sarbadhikary, BP George, H Abrahamse - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In recent years tremendous effort has been invested in the field of cancer diagnosis and
treatment with an overall goal of improving cancer management, therapeutic outcome …

Natural photosensitizers in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

E Polat, K Kang - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Health problems and reduced treatment effectiveness due to antimicrobial resistance have
become important global problems and are important factors that negatively affect life …

Intelligent poly (l-histidine)-based nanovehicles for controlled drug delivery

Y Zhang, I Kim, Y Lu, Y Xu, DG Yu, W Song - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems based on polymeric nanovehicles are among the
most promising treatment regimens for malignant cancers. Such intelligent systems that …

Nanoemulsion applications in photodynamic therapy

S Moghassemi, A Dadashzadeh, RB Azevedo… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoemulsion, or nanoscaled-size emulsions, is a thermodynamically stable system formed
by blending two immiscible liquids, blended with an emulsifying agent to produce a single …

Photodynamic cancer therapy using liposomes as an advanced vesicular photosensitizer delivery system

S Moghassemi, A Dadashzadeh, RB Azevedo… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
The multidisciplinary field of photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a combination of
photochemistry and photophysics sciences, which has shown tremendous potential for …

De Novo Designed Ru (II) Metallacycle as a Microenvironment‐Adaptive Sonosensitizer and Sonocatalyst for Multidrug‐Resistant Biofilms Eradication

Y Xu, Y Pang, L Luo, A Sharma, J Yang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Albeit sonodynamic therapy (SDT) has achieved encouraging progress in microbial
sterilization, the scarcity of guidelines for designing highly effective sonosensitizers and the …

[HTML][HTML] Controllable growth of drug-encapsulated metal-organic framework (MOF) on porphyrinic MOF for PDT/chemo-combined therapy

B Liu, Z Liu, X Lu, P Wu, Z Sun, H Chu, H Peng - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
To improve the therapeutic effect of tumors, developing well-defined hybrid metal-organic
frameworks (MOFs) through MOF-on-MOF growth has attracted much attention. In this work …