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Photodynamic therapy of malignant glioma with hypericin: Comprehensive in vitro study in human glioblastoma cell lines
1 Mar 2007
Abstract excerpt
The poor prognosis of patients suffering from malignant glioma requires further efforts. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) might be a therapeutic option to increase surgical radicality. Hypericin (HY) exhibit high phototoxicity to malignant cells and accumulates to a higher extent in glioblastoma cells as compared to neurons. Therefore, the impact of various experimental parameters on cytotoxicity, intracellular...
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