Autori: Ion, Rodica-Mariana; Pascu, Mihail-Lucian

Editorial: Proc SPIE, 4430, p.6421-6425, 2001.

Rezumat:

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer is based on the dye- sensitized photooxidation of different biological targets in the tumoral tissue yielding to a photochemically induced cell’s death. The effectiveness of this treatment method depends on the photophysical and photochemical properties of the used photosensitizer-drug during the irradiation with visible light (laser beam) and/or the ionizing radiation. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the photodynamic therapy applications: substitution effects, ionization and aggregation processes effects, photodegradation reaction implications, the correlation with some medical applications on human brain cells.

Cuvinte cheie: photodynamic therapy, porphyrins

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