A highly potent ruthenium(II)-sonosensitizer and sonocatalyst for in vivo sonotherapy

Sonodynamic therapy has therapeutic promise due to its safety and good tissue penetration, but is currently bottlenecked due to a lack of efficient and safe sonosensitizers. Here the authors show that [Ru(bpy)3]2+ can produce singlet oxygen and sonooxidize NADH in deep tissue, and destroy mouse tumo...

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Main Authors: Chao Liang, Jiaen Xie, Shuangling Luo, Can Huang, Qianling Zhang, Huaiyi Huang, Pingyu Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25303-1