Photodynamic therapy with WST09 (Tookad): Quantitative studies in normal colon and transplanted tumours

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 477-482

  Woodhams, Josephine H ^a   MacRobert, Alexander J ^a   Novelli, Marco ^b   Bown, Stephen G ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colon; Colon cancer; Palladium bacteriopheophorbide; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

PALLADIUM BACTERIOPHEOPHORBIDE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CANCER GRAFT; CANCER SIZE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; NECROSIS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 28844438654     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21335     Document Type: Article

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