As deaths from preventable diseases abate, cancer is becoming one of the leading causes
of death in the world. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a noninvasive treatment for cancer …

Porphyrinic molecules have a unique theranostic role in disease therapy; they have been
used to image, detect and treat different forms of diseased tissue including age-related …

Phthalocyanines (Pc's) 1-3 have been the focus of intense research interest ever since their
initial characterization in the 1930s by Linstead and Robertson4, 5 after the accidental …

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This review has two parts. The first one gives an approach to interdisciplinary studies
against cancer carried out by many scientists using porphyrin-type substrates as …

A series of photosensitizers (PS), which are meso-substituted tetra-cationic porphyrins, was
synthesized in order to study the role of amphiphilicity and zinc insertion in photodynamic …

Three Zn (II) phthalocyanines substituted by hydroxyl-terminated tetraethylene glycol chains
have been synthesized. In order to evaluate the potential of these highly water-soluble …

Synthesis of water soluble porphyrin and phthalocyanine derivatives with, respectively, eight
and sixteen galactose units has been carried out. The combined preliminary photophysical …

Monoglycoconjugated water-soluble phthalocyanines. Design and synthesis of potential
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In medical applications such as drug delivery, gene transfection and imaging the formation
of systems with well-defined sizes and shapes are of significant interest. For this reason the …