Overcoming barriers in photodynamic therapy harnessing nano-formulation strategies

J **e, Y Wang, W Choi, P Jangili, Y Ge, Y Xu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been extensively investigated for decades for tumor
treatment because of its non-invasiveness, spatiotemporal selectivity, lower side-effects, and …

Synthesis, modification and application of titanium dioxide nanoparticles: A review

J Wang, Z Wang, W Wang, Y Wang, X Hu, J Liu… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has been heavily investigated owing to its low cost, benign nature
and strong photocatalytic ability. Thus, TiO2 has broad applications including photocatalysts …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-based nanomedicine

B Yang, Y Chen, J Shi - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an essential role in regulating various physiological
functions of living organisms. The intrinsic biochemical properties of ROS, which underlie …

Nanocatalytic medicine

B Yang, Y Chen, J Shi - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Catalysis and medicine are often considered as two independent research fields with their
own respective scientific phenomena. Promoted by recent advances in nanochemistry, large …

Reactive oxygen species‐regulating strategies based on nanomaterials for disease treatment

C Zhang, X Wang, J Du, Z Gu, Y Zhao - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an essential role in physiological and pathological
processes. Studies on the regulation of ROS for disease treatments have caused wide …

Ultrasound‐activated sensitizers and applications

X Lin, J Song, X Chen, H Yang - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Modalities for photo‐triggered anticancer therapy are usually limited by their low penetrative
depth. Sonotheranostics especially sonodynamic therapy (SDT), which is different from …

Photodynamic therapy: photosensitizers and nanostructures

A Escudero, C Carrillo-Carrión… - Materials Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The reactions of some structures to different external stimuli can be used for therapeutic
purposes. In particular, in photodynamic therapy (PDT), a light-sensitive compound or …

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 …

Micro/nanoparticle‐augmented sonodynamic therapy (SDT): breaking the depth shallow of photoactivation

X Qian, Y Zheng, Y Chen - Advanced materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The fast development of photoactivation for cancer treatment provides an efficient photo‐
therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment, but traditional photodynamic or photothermal …

Nanoparticles in photodynamic therapy

SS Lucky, KC Soo, Y Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Cancer accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) worldwide in 2008.(1)
Almost 13 million cancer cases are newly diagnosed every year, and deaths are projected to …