Recent developments in phototherapy: Treatment methods and devices

Recent Patents on Inflammation and Allergy Drug Discovery

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-108

  Morita, Akimichi ^a   Weiss, Mark ^a   Maeda, Akira ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Narrow band UVB; Phototherapy; Targeted phototherapy

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCITRIOL DERIVATIVE; VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE; XENON;

BLUE LIGHT; DEVICE; DRUG FORMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; MOUTH MUCOSA; NOSE MUCOSA; PATENT; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SAFETY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CHLORIDES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MOUTH MUCOSA; NASAL MUCOSA; PATENTS AS TOPIC; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRODRUGS; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY; VITAMIN D; XENON;

EID: 55849127082     PISSN: 1872213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187221308784543665     Document Type: Review

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