Developments in PDT sensitizers for increased selectivity and singlet oxygen production

Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4421-4456

  Mehraban, Nahid ^a   Freeman, Harold S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphiphilic; Drug delivery; Nanoparticles; Photodynamic therapy; Photosensitizer; Polymeric micelles; Singlet oxygen production; Triplet photosensitizer; Tumor selectivity

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DELIVERY; IRIDIUM; MICELLES; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POLYMERS;

AMPHIPHILICS; POLYMERIC MICELLE; SINGLET OXYGEN PRODUCTION; TRIPLET PHOTOSENSITIZERS; TUMOR SELECTIVITIES;

PHOTOSENSITIZERS;

EID: 84937716496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma8074421     Document Type: Review

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