[HTML][HTML] Triple-negative breast cancer: a review of conventional and advanced therapeutic strategies

MA Medina, G Oza, A Sharma, LG Arriaga… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells are deficient in estrogen, progesterone and
ERBB2 receptor expression, presenting a particularly challenging therapeutic target due to …

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 …

Multi‐functional liposome: a powerful theranostic nano‐platform enhancing photodynamic therapy

X Cheng, J Gao, Y Ding, Y Lu, Q Wei, D Cui… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) has promising advantages in almost non‐invasion,
low drug resistance, and low dark toxicity, it still suffers from limitations in the lipophilic …

Recent advances in photonanomedicines for enhanced cancer photodynamic therapy

JJ Hu, Q Lei, XZ Zhang - Progress in Materials Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, photodynamic therapy (PDT) that employs photosensitizers (PSs) to generate
cytotoxic species under light irradiation for selective destruction of neoplastic lesions has …

[HTML][HTML] Current trends in cancer nanotheranostics: metallic, polymeric, and lipid-based systems

CO Silva, JO Pinho, JM Lopes, AJ Almeida, MM Gaspar… - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Theranostics has emerged in recent years to provide an efficient and safer alternative in
cancer management. This review presents an updated description of nanotheranostic …

Liposomal formulations of photosensitizers

S Ghosh, KA Carter, JF Lovell - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a clinical ablation modality to treat cancers and other
diseases. PDT involves administration of a photosensitizer, followed by irradiation of target …

Indocyanine green delivery systems for tumour detection and treatments

EP Porcu, A Salis, E Gavini, G Rassu, M Maestri… - Biotechnology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Indocyanine green (ICG) is a cyanine compound that displays fluorescent properties in the
near infrared region. This dye is employed for numerous indications but nowadays its major …

Design features for optimization of tetrapyrrole macrocycles as antimicrobial and anticancer photosensitizers

A Martinez De Pinillos Bayona, P Mroz… - Chemical biology & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses non‐toxic dyes called photosensitizers (PS) and
harmless visible light that combine to form highly toxic reactive oxygen species that kill cells …

[HTML][HTML] NIR-laser-controlled drug release from DOX/IR-780-loaded temperature-sensitive-liposomes for chemo-photothermal synergistic tumor therapy

F Yan, W Duan, Y Li, H Wu, Y Zhou, M Pan, H Liu… - Theranostics, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
NIR laser-induced photothermal therapy (PTT) through near-infrared agents has
demonstrated the great potential in solid tumor ablation. However, the nonuniform heat …

Insight into the efficiency of oxygen introduced photodynamic therapy (PDT) and deep PDT against cancers with various assembled nanocarriers

J Zhao, L Duan, A Wang, J Fei… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been used in the treatment of cancers and other benign
diseases for several years in clinic. However, the hypoxia of tumors and the penetration …