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In‐Situ Oxygen‐Evolving Photoactive Nanococktail: The Future of Hypoxic Tumour Photodynamic Therapy
Author(s) -
Banerjee Samya
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chembiochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1439-7633
pISSN - 1439-4227
DOI - 10.1002/cbic.201900387
Subject(s) - photodynamic therapy , in situ , hypoxia (environmental) , oxygen , reactive oxygen species , nanotechnology , cancer research , chemistry , medicine , materials science , biochemistry , organic chemistry
Hypoxia‐related resistance is one of the main challenges for photodynamic therapy to overcome. This highlight discusses a few current works on possible ways to overcome this problem by in situ oxygen generation in the hypoxic core of tumours.