Photodynamic therapy: Innovative approaches for antibacterial and anticancer treatments

M Kolarikova, B Hosikova, H Dilenko… - Medicinal Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment mainly for cancer but also for bacterial
infections. This treatment dates back to 1900 when a German medical school graduate …

Water-soluble conjugated polymers for imaging, diagnosis, and therapy

C Zhu, L Liu, Q Yang, F Lv, S Wang - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Conjugated polymers (CPs) are characterized by a delocalized electronic structure that
exhibits efficient coupling between optoelectronic segments. Excitons can be efficiently …

Biofilm‐sensitive photodynamic nanoparticles for enhanced penetration and antibacterial efficiency

S Wu, C Xu, Y Zhu, L Zheng, L Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient antimicrobials are urgently needed for the treatment of bacterial biofilms due to their
resistance to traditional drugs. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a new strategy that has been …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy to control clinically relevant biofilm infections

X Hu, YY Huang, Y Wang, X Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Biofilm describes a microbially-derived sessile community in which microbial cells are firmly
attached to the substratum and embedded in extracellular polymeric matrix. Microbial …

Photodynamic therapy for localized infections—State of the art

T Dai, YY Huang, MR Hamblin - Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy, 2009 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) was discovered over 100 years ago by observing the killing of
microorganisms when harmless dyes and visible light were combined in vitro. Since then it …

[HTML][HTML] Antibacterial photodynamic therapy: overview of a promising approach to fight antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections

Y Liu, R Qin, SAJ Zaat, E Breukink… - Journal of clinical and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Antibacterial photodynamic therapy (APDT) has drawn increasing attention from the
scientific society for its potential to effectively kill multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria and …

Advances in photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy

A Anas, J Sobhanan, KM Sulfiya, C Jasmin… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT)
combine light and photosensitizers to treat cancers and microbial infections, respectively. In …

Antibiotic hybrids: the next generation of agents and adjuvants against Gram-negative pathogens?

R Domalaon, T Idowu, GG Zhanel… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global incidence of drug-resistant Gram-negative bacillary infections has been
increasing, and there is a dire need to develop novel strategies to overcome this problem …

Sunlight-mediated inactivation of health-relevant microorganisms in water: a review of mechanisms and modeling approaches

KL Nelson, AB Boehm, RJ Davies-Colley… - … Science: Processes & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Health-relevant microorganisms present in natural surface waters and engineered treatment
systems that are exposed to sunlight can be inactivated by a complex set of interacting …

Killing G (+) or G (−) bacteria? The important role of molecular charge in AIE‐active photosensitizers

X Shi, SHP Sung, JHC Chau, Y Li, Z Liu… - Small …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial infections pose a serious threat to human health. Photodynamic therapy is an
effective medical treatment to solve the problems raised by antibiotic resistant bacteria. But it …