Photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy

M Lan, S Zhao, W Liu, CS Lee… - Advanced healthcare …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As an emerging clinical modality for cancer treatment, photodynamic therapy (PDT) takes
advantage of the cytotoxic activity of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are generated by …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated antibacterial oxidative therapies: available methods to generate ROS and a novel option proposal

S Alfei, GC Schito, AM Schito, G Zuccari - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The increasing emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens causes difficult-to-treat
infections with long-term hospitalizations and a high incidence of death, thus representing a …

New photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy

H Abrahamse, MR Hamblin - Biochemical Journal, 2016 - portlandpress.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) was discovered more than 100 years ago, and has since
become a well-studied therapy for cancer and various non-malignant diseases including …

Toxicity of copper oxide nanoparticles: a review study

S Naz, A Gul, M Zia - IET nanobiotechnology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) use has exponentially increased in various
applications (such as industrial catalyst, gas sensors, electronic materials, biomedicines …

Metal–organic framework (MOF) compounds: photocatalysts for redox reactions and solar fuel production

A Dhakshinamoorthy, AM Asiri… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline porous materials formed from bi‐or
multipodal organic linkers and transition‐metal nodes. Some MOFs have high structural …

Singlet oxygen photophysics: from liquid solvents to mammalian cells

M Bregnhøj, F Thorning, PR Ogilby - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular oxygen, O2, has long provided a cornerstone for studies in chemistry, physics,
and biology. Although the triplet ground state, O2 (X3Σg–), has garnered much attention, the …

Carbon nanomaterials for biological imaging and nanomedicinal therapy

G Hong, S Diao, AL Antaris, H Dai - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanomaterials are a class of low-dimensional materials that have aroused a great
deal of interest in the past 30 years since the spectacular debut of fullerene, the first member …

Photosensitizers in antibacterial photodynamic therapy: An overview

J Ghorbani, D Rahban, S Aghamiri, A Teymouri… - Laser therapy, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Antibacterial Photodynamic therapy (APDT) is a process utilizing light and light sensitive
agents (named photosensitizer (PS)) and is usually applied in an oxygen-rich environment …

Fullerenes in biology and medicine

E Castro, AH Garcia, G Zavala… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerenes and related carbon based derivatives have shown a growing relevance in
biology and medicine, mainly due to the unique electronic and structural properties that …

Inorganic nanomaterials with intrinsic singlet oxygen generation for photodynamic therapy

MR Younis, G He, J Qu, J Lin, P Huang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inorganic nanomaterials with intrinsic singlet oxygen (1O2) generation capacity, are
emerged yet dynamically developing materials as nano‐photosensitizers (NPSs) for …