Hypericin and 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX induce enhanced phototoxicity in human endometrial cancer cells with non-coherent white light

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-18

  Schneider Yin, Xiaoye ^a   Kurmanaviciene, Aida ^b   Roth, Marion ^a   Roos, Malgorzata ^c   Fedier, André ^b   Minder, Elisabeth I ^a   Walt, Heinrich ^b  

^a TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospital of Psychiatry   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

5 Aminolevulinic acid; Hypericin; Photodynamic detection; Photodynamic therapy; Protopophyrin IX

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; HYPERICIN; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HEC 1A CELL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ILLUMINATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WHITE LIGHT;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; PERYLENE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROTOPORPHYRINS;

EID: 67349163664     PISSN: 15721000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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