Improvement of systemic 5-aminolevulinic acid-based photodynamic therapy in vivo using light fractionation with a 75-minute interval

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 901-904

  De Bruijn, Henriëtte S ^a   Van Der Veen, Nynke ^a   Robinson, Dominic J ^a   Star, Willem M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; EDEMA; FEMALE; FRACTIONATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TISSUE INJURY; TUMOR VOLUME;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LIGHT; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033558237     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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