Enhancing the efficacy of photodynamic cancer therapy by radicals from plant auxin (indole-3-acetic acid).
Indole-3-acetic acid (plant auxin) has low toxicity but dramatically enhances the killing of mammalian cells on illuminating phenothiazinium dyes with red light. Suitable dyes include toluidine blue, used in cancer diagnosis because of localization in tumors, and methylene blue, used in experimental...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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