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Preferential accumulation of 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX in breast cancer: a comprehensive study on six breast cell lines with varying phenotypes.
Journal of biomedical optics - 1 Jan 2000
Millon Stacy R, Ostrander Julie H, Yazdanfar Siavash, Brown J Quincy, Bender Janelle E, Rajeha Anita, Ramanujam Nirmala
Abstract excerpt
We describe the potential of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA)-induced protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) fluorescence as a source of contrast for margin detection in commonly diagnosed breast cancer subtypes. Fluorescence intensity of PpIX in untreated and ALA-treated normal mammary epithelial and breast cancer...
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