Methylene blue in anticancer photodynamic therapy: systematic review of preclinical studies

• Main Authors: Amir Taldaev (Author), Roman Terekhov (Author), Ilya Nikitin (Author), Elizaveta Melnik (Author), Vera Kuzina (Author), Mikhail Klochko (Author), Igor Reshetov (Author), Artem Shiryaev (Author), Victor Loschenov (Author), Galina Ramenskaya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Methylene blue has a long history of clinical application. Thanks to phenothiazine chromophore, it has potential in photodynamic anticancer therapy. In spite of the growing body of literature that has evaluated the action of this dye on different types of cancer, the systematic understan...