Recent strategies to develop innovative photosensitizers for enhanced photodynamic therapy

TC Pham, VN Nguyen, Y Choi, S Lee, J Yoon - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review presents a robust strategy to design photosensitizers (PSs) for various species.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemical-based treatment approach that involves the …

The fast-growing field of photo-driven theranostics based on aggregation-induced emission

Z Zhang, M Kang, H Tan, N Song, M Li, P ** Type‐I photosensitizers is considered as an efficient approach to overcome the
deficiency of traditional photodynamic therapy (PDT) for hypoxic tumors. However, it remains …

Recent advances of AIE light-up probes for photodynamic therapy

S Liu, G Feng, BZ Tang, B Liu - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As a new non-invasive treatment method, photodynamic therapy (PDT) has attracted great
attention in biomedical applications. The advantages of possessing fluorescence for …

An Activatable Phototheranostic Probe for Anti‐hypoxic Type I Photodynamic‐and Immuno‐Therapy of Cancer

M Zhao, Y Zhang, J Miao, H Zhou, Y Jiang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), which utilizes type I photoreactions, has great potential as an
effective cancer treatment because of its hypoxia‐tolerant superiority over the commonly …

Efficient NIR-II type-I AIE photosensitizer for mitochondria-targeted photodynamic therapy through synergistic apoptosis–ferroptosis

J Zhuang, B Wang, H Chen, K Zhang, N Li, N Zhao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hypoxia, the hallmark of malignant tumors, has been recognized as a major obstacle for
photodynamic therapy (PDT). Precisely targeting cancer cells in intricate biological …