Exploring treatment options in cancer: tumor treatment strategies

B Liu, H Zhou, L Tan, KTH Siu, XY Guan - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Traditional therapeutic approaches such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy have
burdened cancer patients with onerous physical and psychological challenges …

[HTML][HTML] Spotlight on porphyrins: Classifications, mechanisms and medical applications

F Yang, M Xu, X Chen, Y Luo - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and sonodynamic therapy (SDT) are non-invasive treatment
methods with obvious inhibitory effect on tumors and have few side effects, which have been …

Hypericin: A natural anthraquinone as promising therapeutic agent

JJ Wu, J Zhang, CY Xia, K Ding, XX Li, XG Pan, JK Xu… - Phytomedicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Background: Hypericin is a prominent secondary metabolite mainly existing in genus
Hypericum. It has become a research focus for a quiet long time owing to its extensively …

[HTML][HTML] A promising natural anthraquinones mediated by photodynamic therapy for anti-cancer therapy

M Nowak-Perlak, P Ziółkowski, M Woźniak - Phytomedicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Experimental studies emphasize the therapeutic potential of plant-derived
photosensitizers used in photodynamic therapy. Moreover, several in vitro and in vivo …

Hypericin as a promising natural bioactive naphthodianthrone: A review of its pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, toxicity, and safety

Z Peng, J Lu, K Liu, L Xie, Y Wang, C Cai… - Phytotherapy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hypericin can be derived from St. John's wort, which is widely spread around the world. As a
natural product, it has been put into clinical practice such as wound healing and depression …

[HTML][HTML] Novel antidepressant mechanism of hypericin: Role of connexin 43-based gap junctions

H Wang, X Yang, H Lai, Y Sun, X Yan, Q Ai… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypericin is widely utilized for its precise antidepressant properties, but its exact
antidepressant mechanism remains unclear. Gap junctions, which were predominantly …

Photodynamic therapy combined with ferroptosis is a synergistic antitumor therapy strategy

Y Huang, X Li, Z Zhang, L Xiong, Y Wang, Y Wen - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In this work, we focused on the synergistic antitumor effects of
photodynamic therapy and ferroptosis. First, we briefly introduced the basic theory of …

Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma: Current and Emerging Therapies.

J Dai - Cancer Network, 2023 - go.gale.com
Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCLs) are clinically heterogeneous T-cell lymphomas that
arise in the skin and are characterized by their clinical and pathological features. This review …

An update on recent advances of photodynamic therapy for primary cutaneous lymphomas

WT Liu, HT Wang, YH Yeh, TW Wong - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Primary cutaneous lymphomas are rare non-Hodgkin lymphomas consisting of
heterogeneous disease entities. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) utilizing photosensitizers …

Acne vulgaris—Novel treatment options and factors affecting therapy adherence: A narrative review

A Tobiasz, D Nowicka, JC Szepietowski - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022 - mdpi.com
Acne vulgaris is an extremely common skin condition, affecting a large population of
adolescents, but at the same time, remaining a quite common issue in the group of adult …