Recent advances on organelle specific Ru (II)/Ir (III)/Re (I) based complexes for photodynamic therapy

B Kar, U Das, N Roy, P Paira - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Organelle specificity is an important facet of more efficient and highly selective drugs with
reduced side effects which have now been the great challenge to the scientists. In …

Underestimated potential of organometallic rhenium complexes as anticancer agents

A Leonidova, G Gasser - ACS chemical biology, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the recent years, organometallic compounds have become recognized as promising anti-
cancer drug candidates. While radioactive 186/188Re compounds are already used in …

Recent development of luminescent rhenium (I) tricarbonyl polypyridine complexes as cellular imaging reagents, anticancer drugs, and antibacterial agents

LCC Lee, KK Leung, KKW Lo - Dalton Transactions, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been fast-growing interest in the exploitation of the photophysical and
photochemical properties of luminescent transition metal complexes in biological …

Anticancer and antibiotic rhenium tri-and dicarbonyl complexes: current research and future perspectives

K Schindler, F Zobi - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Organometallic compounds are increasingly recognized as promising anticancer and
antibiotic drug candidates. Among the transition metal ions investigated for these purposes …

Upconverting nanoparticles for the near infrared photoactivation of transition metal complexes: new opportunities and challenges in medicinal inorganic …

E Ruggiero, S Alonso-de Castro, A Habtemariam… - Dalton …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Upconverting nanoparticles for the near infrared photoactivation of transition metal complexes:
new opportunities and challenges in medicinal inorgani ... - Dalton Transactions (RSC …

Identification of novel potent and non-toxic anticancer, anti-angiogenic and antimetastatic rhenium complexes against colorectal carcinoma

J Delasoie, A Pavic, N Voutier, S Vojnovic… - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Combination therapy targeting both tumor growth and vascularization is considered to be a
cornerstone for colorectal carcinomas (CRC) treatment. However, the major obstacles of …

Recent emergence of rhenium (I) tricarbonyl complexes as photosensitisers for cancer therapy

HS Liew, CW Mai, M Zulkefeli, T Madheswaran… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is emerging as a significant complementary or alternative
approach for cancer treatment. PDT drugs act as photosensitisers, which upon using …

[HTML][HTML] Theranostics with photodynamic therapy for personalized medicine: to see and to treat

Y Wang, JN Staudinger, TL Mindt, G Gasser - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is an approved treatment modality, which is presently
receiving great attention due to its limited invasiveness, high selectivity and limited …

Modifications of porphyrins and hydroporphyrins for their solubilization in aqueous media

M Luciano, C Brückner - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
The increasing popularity of porphyrins and hydroporphyrins for use in a variety of
biomedical (photodynamic therapy, fluorescence tagging and imaging, photoacoustic …

(Metallo) porphyrins as Potent Phototoxic Anti‐Cancer Agents after Irradiation with Red Light

PM Antoni, A Naik, I Albert, R Rubbiani… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Novel photoactive (metallo) porphyrins were synthesised and characterised. When
irradiated with light at a wavelength greater than 600 nm, these porphyrins act as …