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ReviewMini reviews in medicinal chemistry2025

A Review on Recent Trends in Photo-Drug Efficiency of Advanced Biomaterials in Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer.

Nawab Ali, Liaqat Rasheed, Wajid Rehman, Muhammad Naseer, Momin Khan, Safia Hassan, Amina Zulfiqar

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Review in Mini reviews in medicinal chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Nawab AliShanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Meilong Road130, Shanghai, 200237, PR China.
Liaqat RasheedDepartment of Chemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra, 21120, Pakistan.
Wajid RehmanDepartment of Chemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra, 21120, Pakistan.
Muhammad NaseerDepartment of Chemistry, Hazara University Mansehra, 21120, Pakistan.
Momin KhanDepartment of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, 23200, Pakistan.
Safia HassanDepartment of Chemistry, COMSATS University, Islamabad, 22060, Pakistan.
Amina ZulfiqarDepartment of Chemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra, 21120, Pakistan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) has emerged as a highly efficient and non-invasive cancer treatment, which is crucial considering the significant global mortality rates associated with cancer. The effectiveness of PDT primarily relies on the quality of the photosensitizers employed. When exposed to appropriate light irradiation, these photosensitizers absorb energy and transition to an excited state, eventually transferring energy to nearby molecules and generating Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), including singlet oxygen [

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Antineoplastic AgentsBiocompatible MaterialsNeoplasmsPhotochemotherapyPhotosensitizing AgentsPorphyrinsAnimalsHumansAntineoplastic AgentsBiocompatible MaterialsPhotosensitizing AgentsPorphyrinsapoptosis.Cancerphoto-drugsphotodynamic therapyporphyrinreactive oxygen species

Identifiers

PMID39364861

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