Internalization of aggregated photosensitizers by tumor cells: Subcellular time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy on derivatives of pyropheophorbide-a ethers and chlorin e6 under femtosecond one- and two-photon excitation

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 686-694

  Kelbauskas, L ^a   Dietel, W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CHLORIN E6; ETHER DERIVATIVE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PYROPHEOPHORBIDE A ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL ASSAY; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TRANSPORT; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; LIPOPHILICITY; PHOTON; SENSITIZATION; TIME; TUMOR CELL;

CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTONS; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036985525     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)076<0686:IOAPBT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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