Photodynamic therapy can kill Cryptococcus neoformans in in vitro and in vivo models

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7165, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Prates, Renato A ^a   Da Silva, Eriques G ^b   Chaves, Priscila F ^a   Santos, Antônio José S ^a   Paula, Claudete R ^b   Ribeiro, Martha S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Diode laser; Methylene Blue; Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy; Photosensitizers; Yeast photoinactivation

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL; BALB/C MICE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIODE LASER; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; ENCAPSULATED YEAST; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; FLUENCE; FLUENCES; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; LOG REDUCTIONS; LOW POWER; METHYLENE BLUE; NEOFORMANS; OUTPUT POWER; PHOTODYNAMIC ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOINACTIVATION; RED LASERS; YEAST CELL;

CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPLEXATION; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; PLASMONS; YEAST;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

EID: 67249164855     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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