Overcoming the Achilles' heel of photodynamic therapy

W Fan, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been applied to treat a wide range of medical conditions,
including wet age-related macular degeneration psoriasis, atherosclerosis, viral infection …

Nanoparticles in photodynamic therapy

SS Lucky, KC Soo, Y Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Cancer accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) worldwide in 2008.(1)
Almost 13 million cancer cases are newly diagnosed every year, and deaths are projected to …

Emerging concepts in dendrimer‐based nanomedicine: from design principles to clinical applications

RM Kannan, E Nance, S Kannan… - Journal of internal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Dendrimers are discrete nanostructures/nanoparticles with 'onion skin‐like'branched layers.
Beginning with a core, these nanostructures grow in concentric layers to produce stepwise …

Recent progress in the development of near-infrared organic photothermal and photodynamic nanotherapeutics

H Zhu, P Cheng, P Chen, K Pu - Biomaterials science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Phototherapies including photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT)
have gained considerable attention due to their high tumor ablation efficiency, excellent …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotheranostics˗ application and further development of nanomedicine strategies for advanced theranostics

MS Muthu, DT Leong, L Mei, SS Feng - Theranostics, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nanotheranostics is to apply and further develop nanomedicine strategies for advanced
theranostics. This review summarizes the various nanocarriers developed so far in the …

Biocompatible nanoclusters with high heating efficiency for systemically delivered magnetic hyperthermia

HA Albarqi, LH Wong, C Schumann, FY Sabei… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Despite its promising therapeutic potential, nanoparticle-mediated magnetic hyperthermia is
currently limited to the treatment of localized and relatively accessible cancer tumors …

[HTML][HTML] Theranostic polymeric nanoparticles as a new approach in cancer therapy and diagnosis: a review

SM Hosseini, J Mohammadnejad, S Salamat… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
The theranostic term is a revolutionary topic in cancer treatment, combining therapeutic and
diagnostic. Theranostic provides an opportunity for diagnosis and response assessment …

Recent advances in photodynamic therapy for cancer and infectious diseases

X Shi, CY Zhang, J Gao, Z Wang - … Reviews: Nanomedicine and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment by combining light and a photosensitizer to
generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) for cellular damage, and is used to treat cancer …

Dendrimers in medicine: therapeutic concepts and pharmaceutical challenges

L Wu, M Ficker, JB Christensen… - Bioconjugate …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Dendrimers are three-dimensional macromolecular structures originating from a central core
molecule and surrounded by successive addition of branching layers (generation). These …

pH-controlled gas-generating mineralized nanoparticles: a theranostic agent for ultrasound imaging and therapy of cancers

KH Min, HS Min, HJ Lee, DJ Park, JY Yhee, K Kim… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report a theranostic nanoparticle that can express ultrasound (US) imaging and
simultaneous therapeutic functions for cancer treatment. We developed doxorubicin-loaded …