Nanomaterial-based contrast agents

JC Hsu, Z Tang, OE Eremina, AM Sofias… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Medical imaging, which empowers the detection of physiological and pathological
processes within living subjects, has a vital role in both preclinical and clinical diagnostics …

Nanomaterials as photothermal therapeutic agents

J Chen, C Ning, Z Zhou, P Yu, Y Zhu, G Tan… - Progress in materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Curing cancer has been one of the greatest conundrums in the modern medical field. To
reduce side-effects associated with the traditional cancer therapy such as radiotherapy and …

Overcoming the Achilles' heel of photodynamic therapy

W Fan, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been applied to treat a wide range of medical conditions,
including wet age-related macular degeneration psoriasis, atherosclerosis, viral infection …

[HTML][HTML] Oncologic photodynamic therapy: basic principles, current clinical status and future directions

D Van Straten, V Mashayekhi, HS De Bruijn, S Oliveira… - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a clinically approved cancer therapy, based on a
photochemical reaction between a light activatable molecule or photosensitizer, light, and …

Recent advances in functional nanomaterials for light–triggered cancer therapy

S Gai, G Yang, P Yang, F He, J Lin, D **, B **ng - Nano today, 2018 - Elsevier
Photo–triggered therapeutic modalities for cancer have attracted enormous attention in
recent years due to the easily focused and tuned properties of irradiation light that enable …

Metal ion/tannic acid assembly as a versatile photothermal platform in engineering multimodal nanotheranostics for advanced applications

T Liu, M Zhang, W Liu, X Zeng, X Song, X Yang… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
This study reports a family of photothermal materials, metal ion/tannic acid assemblies
(MITAs). MITAs from FeIII, VIII, and RuIII afford excellent photothermal efficiency (η≈ 40%) …

A cancer vaccine-mediated postoperative immunotherapy for recurrent and metastatic tumors

T Wang, D Wang, H Yu, B Feng, F Zhou… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Vaccines to induce effective and sustained antitumor immunity have great potential for
postoperative cancer therapy. However, a robust cancer vaccine simultaneously eliciting …

A highly efficient and photostable photosensitizer with near‐infrared aggregation‐induced emission for image‐guided photodynamic anticancer therapy

W Wu, D Mao, F Hu, S Xu, C Chen… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), which relies on photosensitizers (PS) and light to generate
reactive oxygen species to kill cancer cells or bacteria, has attracted much attention in recent …

Near‐Infrared‐II Fluorophore with Inverted Dependence of Fluorescence Quantum Yield on Polarity as Potent Phototheranostics for Fluorescence‐Image‐Guided …

M Li, Z Lu, J Zhang, L Chen, X Tang, Q Jiang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organic phototheranostics simultaneously having fluorescence in the second near‐infrared
(NIR‐II, 1000–1700 nm) window, and photothermal and photodynamic functions possess …

Recent advances in photonanomedicines for enhanced cancer photodynamic therapy

JJ Hu, Q Lei, XZ Zhang - Progress in Materials Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, photodynamic therapy (PDT) that employs photosensitizers (PSs) to generate
cytotoxic species under light irradiation for selective destruction of neoplastic lesions has …