Reduction of Intracellular pH Is Not the Mechanism for the Synergistic Interaction between Photodynamic Therapy and Nigericin

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 853-858

  Varnes, Marie E ^a   Bayne, Marian T ^a   Bright, Gary R ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOLE DERIVATIVE; IONOPHORE; NIGERICIN; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PHTHALOCYANINE ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DRUG POTENTIATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PH; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

DRUG SYNERGISM; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDOLES; IONOPHORES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NIGERICIN; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030294022     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb01846.x     Document Type: Article

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