A new approach to cancer therapy due to appropriate uptake and retention kinetics of meta-tetrahydroxy-phenylchlorin in a human fibroblast cell line

Cancer Biochemistry Biophysics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 171-176

  Wierrani, F ^a   Feidler, D ^b   Schnitzhofer, G ^b   Stewart, J C M ^c   Gharehbaghi, K ^a   Henry, M ^a   Grin, W ^a   Grunberger W ^a   Krammer, B ^b  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c Woodbridge Meadows   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

laser photodynamic therapy; meta tetrahydroxy phenylchlorin; pharmacokinetics

Indexed keywords

2-METHYL-3-(2,4,5-TRIHYDROXYPHENYL)ALANINE; 6 HYDROXY ALPHA METHYLDOPA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; METHYLDOPA; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG STABILITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL LINE; DRUG STABILITY; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; METHYLDOPA; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 12644269236     PISSN: 03057232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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