Amplified Singlet Oxygen Generation in Semiconductor Polymer Dots for Photodynamic Cancer Therapy

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3624-3634

  Li, Shouying ^a,b   Chang, Kaiwen ^a   Sun, Kai ^a   Tang, Ying ^b   Cui, Ni ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Qin, Weiping ^a   Xu, Hong ^b   Wu, Changfeng ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST HOSPITAL OF JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

energy transfer; nanoparticle; photodynamic therapy; photosensitizer; semiconducting polymer

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DISEASES; ENERGY TRANSFER; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPED POLYMERS;

ADENOCARCINOMA CELLS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; ENERGY TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR POLYMERS; SINGLET OXYGEN GENERATION; TETRAPHENYL PORPHYRINS; THERAPEUTIC POTENTIALS;

GAS GENERATORS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; MOUSE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NUDE MOUSE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84958955883     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07995     Document Type: Article

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