Photodynamic Tumor Therapy with Cyclodextrin Nanoassemblies

Cyclodextrins in Pharmaceutics, Cosmetics, and Biomedicine: Current and Future Industrial Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 343-361

  Mazzaglia, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT); Photodynamic therapy (PDT); Photodynamic Tumor Therapy with Cyclodextrin Nanoassemblies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960974141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470926819.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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