Multi‐functional liposome: a powerful theranostic nano‐platform enhancing photodynamic therapy

X Cheng, J Gao, Y Ding, Y Lu, Q Wei, D Cui… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) has promising advantages in almost non‐invasion,
low drug resistance, and low dark toxicity, it still suffers from limitations in the lipophilic …

Photodynamic cancer therapy using liposomes as an advanced vesicular photosensitizer delivery system

S Moghassemi, A Dadashzadeh, RB Azevedo… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
The multidisciplinary field of photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a combination of
photochemistry and photophysics sciences, which has shown tremendous potential for …

Oxygen-generating hybrid polymeric nanoparticles with encapsulated doxorubicin and chlorin e6 for trimodal imaging-guided combined chemo-photodynamic therapy

DR Hu, LJ Chen, Y Qu, JR Peng, BY Chu, K Shi… - …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The combination of chemotherapy with photodynamic therapy (PDT) has attracted broad
attention as it can overcome limitations of conventional chemo-treatment by using different …

Targeting hypoxia: hypoxia-activated prodrugs in cancer therapy

Y Li, L Zhao, XF Li - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Hypoxia is an important characteristic of most solid malignancies, and is closely related to
tumor prognosis and therapeutic resistance. Hypoxia is one of the most important factors …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in strategies for addressing hypoxia in tumor photodynamic therapy

L Hong, J Li, Y Luo, T Guo, C Zhang, S Ou, Y Long… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment modality that uses light to target tumors and
minimize damage to normal tissues. It offers advantages including high spatiotemporal …

Drug delivery systems for phthalocyanines for photodynamic therapy

J Rak, P Pouckova, J Benes, D Vetvicka - Anticancer research, 2019 - ar.iiarjournals.org
The focus of this review is to describe the state-of-art in the development of innovative drug
delivery systems for phthalocyanines as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy (PDT) …

Advances in liposome-encapsulated phthalocyanines for photodynamic therapy

J Rak, M Kabesova, J Benes, P Pouckova, D Vetvicka - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
This updated review aims to describe the current status in the development of liposome-
based systems for the targeted delivery of phthalocyanines for photodynamic therapy (PDT) …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing photodynamic therapy of refractory solid cancers: Combining second-generation photosensitizers with multi-targeted liposomal delivery

R Weijer, M Broekgaarden, M Kos, R van Vught… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Contemporary photodynamic therapy (PDT) for the last-line treatment of refractory cancers
such as nasopharyngeal carcinomas, superficial recurrent urothelial carcinomas, and non …

Metal complex-based liposomes: Applications and prospects in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics

Z Wang, J Li, G Lin, Z He, Y Wang - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal complexes are of increasing interest as pharmaceutical agents in cancer diagnostics
and therapeutics, while some of them suffer from issues such as limited water solubility and …

Increased photodynamic therapy sensitization in tumors using a nitric oxide-based nanoplatform with ATP-production blocking capability

Q **ang, B Qiao, Y Luo, J Cao, K Fan, X Hu… - …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) efficacy in cancer cells is affected by sub-physiological
hypoxia caused by dysregulated and “chaotic” tumor microvasculature. However, current …