Health problems and reduced treatment effectiveness due to antimicrobial resistance have
become important global problems and are important factors that negatively affect life …

Background: Hypericin is a prominent secondary metabolite mainly existing in genus
Hypericum. It has become a research focus for a quiet long time owing to its extensively …

Photodynamic inactivation is a phenomenon that has the potential to cause microbial
inactivation using visible light. It works on the principle that photosensitizers within the …

Hypericin can be derived from St. John's wort, which is widely spread around the world. As a
natural product, it has been put into clinical practice such as wound healing and depression …

Nowadays, food safety issues have drawn increased attention due to the continual
occurrence of infectious diseases caused by foodborne pathogens, which is an important …

The food and drink manufacturing industry is constantly seeking for alternative sanitation
and disinfection systems that may achieve the same antimicrobial efficiency of conventional …

Hypericin is a photosensitizing drug that is active against membrane-enveloped viruses and
therefore constitutes a promising candidate for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infections. The …

Biomodified coated-lipid vesicles were obtained using the DPPC lipid (L) and F127
copolymer linked covalently with spermine (SN), biotin (BT), and folic acid (FA), resulting in …

It is more than sixty years since the era of modern photodynamic therapy (PDT) for cancer
began. Enhanced selectivity for malignant cells with a reduced selectivity for non-malignant …

Chlorin e6 (Ce6) is among the most used sensitizers in photodynamic (PDT) and
sonodynamic (SDT) therapy; its low solubility in water, however, hampers its clinical …