pH-dependent chalcogenopyrylium dyes as potential sensitizers for photodynamic therapy: Selective retention in tumors by exploiting pH differences between tumor and normal tissue

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 630-636

  Bellnier, David A ^a   Young, David N ^b   Detty, Michael R ^b   Camacho, Susan H ^a   Oseroff, Allan R ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGEN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PH; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

ANIMALS; CHALCOGENS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS;

EID: 0033212416     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb08262.x     Document Type: Article

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