Approaches toward combining photodynamic therapy with pharmaceuticals that alter vascular microenvironment

Retina

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2009, Pages

  Busch, Theresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Photodynamic therapy; Vascular endothelial growth factor; Verteporfin

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; BEVACIZUMAB; RANIBIZUMAB;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MICROENVIRONMENT; MONOTHERAPY; NOTE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; UPREGULATION;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 68049131232     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3181ad25e8     Document Type: Note

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