Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world, behind only cardiovascular
diseases, and is one of the most serious diseases threatening human health nowadays …

Research on cancer theragnosis with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) has rapidly increased, as
AuNPs have many useful characteristics for various biomedical applications, such as …

Gold nanoparticles exhibit very unique physiochemical and optical properties, which now
are extensively studied in range of medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications. In …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive technique which has proven to be
successful in the treatment of several types of tumors. This relatively simple method exploits …

The cancer incidence world-wide has caused an increase in the demand for effective forms
of treatment. One unconventional form of treatment for cancer is photodynamic therapy …

Marine plants, animals and microorganisms display steady growth in the ocean and are
abundant carbohydrate resources. Specifically, natural polysaccharides obtained from …

In order to improve the anti-cancer therapy efficiency of hydrophobic drugs such as curcumin
(Cur), a novel dual pH/redox sensitive marine laminarin-based nanomedicine carrier …

Laminarin conjugate-based nano-scaled particles were in this study proposed as a delivery
system for protoporphyrin IX (Pp IX) in photodynamic therapy (PDT) of human breast cancer …

Abstract Introduction Nanoparticles (Np) can increase drug efficacy and overcome problems
associated with solubility and aggregation in a solution of PpIX. Purpose Evaluate if Np …

Riboflavin (Rf) is an endogenous photosensitizer, which can participate in Type I and Type II
processes. We have recently shown that the yield of the triplet excited states of Rf is …