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 …

[HTML][HTML] Unleashing the power of porphyrin photosensitizers: Illuminating breakthroughs in photodynamic therapy

A Akbar, S Khan, T Chatterjee, M Ghosh - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This comprehensive review provides the current trends and recent developments of
porphyrin-based photosensitizers. We discuss their evolution from first-generation to third …

Light-activated siRNA endosomal release (LASER) by porphyrin lipid nanoparticles

Y Mo, MHY Cheng, A D'Elia, K Doran, L Ding, J Chen… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have achieved clinical success in delivering small interfering
RNAs (siRNAs) for targeted gene therapy. However, endosomal escape of siRNA into the …

Emerging nanomedicines of paclitaxel for cancer treatment

Q Chen, S Xu, S Liu, Y Wang, G Liu - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Malignant tumor is still a leading threat to human health. Despite the rapid development of
targeted therapeutic strategies, any treatment specifically acting on single target would …

Core-shell structured nanoparticles for photodynamic therapy-based cancer treatment and related imaging

Y Yang, Z Zeng, E Almatrafi, D Huang, C Zhang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an emerging noninvasive therapy modality for treating
cancer diseases. However, conventional PDT suffers from poor stability of organic …

A mitochondria-anchored supramolecular photosensitizer as a pyroptosis inducer for potent photodynamic therapy and enhanced antitumor immunity

H Wang, G Jing, J Niu, L Yang, Y Li, Y Gao… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background The discovery of a potent photosensitizer with desirable immunogenic cell
death (ICD) ability can prominently enhance antitumor immunity in photodynamic therapy …

Combinatorial therapeutic approaches with nanomaterial-based photodynamic cancer therapy

Y Hao, CK Chung, Z Yu, RV Huis in 't Veld… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), in which a light source is used in combination with a
photosensitizer to induce local cell death, has shown great promise in therapeutically …

Synergistic chemotherapy and phototherapy based on red blood cell biomimetic nanomaterials

D Meng, S Yang, Y Yang, L Zhang, L Cui - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Novel drug delivery systems (DDSs) have become the mainstay of research in targeted
cancer therapy. By combining different therapeutic strategies, potential DDSs and …

A glutathione activatable pro-drug-photosensitizer for combined chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy

Y Yang, Y Zhang, R Wang, X Rong, T Liu, X Xia… - Chinese Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
During cancer treatment, chemotherapeutic drugs always result in severe side-effects and
drug resistance. Therefore, combining cheomtherapy with other therapeutic modalities, such …

Organic coordination nanoparticles for phototheranostics

H Ren, J Li, JF Lovell, Y Zhang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanomedicines can integrate multiple functionalities to improve the efficacy of disease
treatment with reduced off-target toxicity. However, challenges such as tedious synthesis …