| Literature DB >> 24900184 |
Atsushi Ikeda1, Motofusa Akiyama1, Takuya Ogawa2, Tatsuo Takeya2.
Abstract
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an emerging approach for the treatment of tumor diseases that has received growing interest in the past few years. In this study, we constructed liposomal photosensitizers (PS) for PDT by shoehorning as light-harvesting "antenna" molecules and dense [60]fullerene (C60) into lipid membrane bilayers. The liposomal PS showed improved photodynamic activity toward human cancer cells via the photoenergy transfer from photoactivated antenna molecules to C60.Entities:
Keywords: Energy transfer; fullerenes; liposomes; photodynamic therapy; photosensitizers
Year: 2010 PMID: 24900184 PMCID: PMC4007897 DOI: 10.1021/ml100021x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: ACS Med Chem Lett ISSN: 1948-5875 Impact factor: 4.345