Cancer, Photodynamic Therapy and Porphyrin-Type Derivatives

ABSTRACT This review has two parts. The first one gives an approach to interdisciplinary studies against cancer carried out by many scientists using porphyrin-type substrates as photosensitizers in PDT. Intensive studies were performed for almost six decades. The successes really started in 1993 wit...

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Published in:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Main Authors: ANA T.P.C. GOMES, MARIA G.P.M.S. NEVES, JOSÉ A.S. CAVALEIRO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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