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Sharp pH-sensitive amphiphilic polypeptide macrophotosensitizer for near infrared imaging-guided photodynamic therapy

Pan Yuan1, Zheng Ruan1, Tuanwei Li1

  • 1CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China; Department of Chemical Physics, iCHEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China.

Nanomedicine : Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine
|October 15, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
Imaging-guidedMacro-photosensitizerNear infrared (NIR)Photodynamic therapy (PDT)Polypeptide

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