Methylene blue photodynamic therapy induces selective and massive cell death in human breast cancer cells.
Ancély F Dos SantosLetícia F TerraRosangela A M WailemannTalita C OliveiraVinícius de Morais GomesMarcela Franco MineiroFlávia Carla MeottiAlexandre Bruni-CardosoMaurício S BaptistaLeticia LabriolaPublished in: BMC cancer (2017)
Finally, our observations underscore the potential of MB-PDT as a highly efficient strategy which could use as a powerful adjunct therapy to surgery of breast tumours, and possibly other types of tumours, to safely increase the eradication rate of microscopic residual disease and thus minimizing the chance of both local and metastatic recurrence.
Keyphrases
- photodynamic therapy
- highly efficient
- cell death
- breast cancer cells
- endothelial cells
- minimally invasive
- fluorescence imaging
- small cell lung cancer
- squamous cell carcinoma
- coronary artery bypass
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- helicobacter pylori infection
- cell cycle arrest
- stem cells
- human health
- bone marrow
- cell proliferation
- helicobacter pylori
- mesenchymal stem cells
- cell therapy
- signaling pathway
- atrial fibrillation
- pi k akt