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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses light-activated drugs to treat diseases ranging from cancer to age-related macular degeneration and antibiotic-resistant infections. This paper reviews the current status of PDT with an emphasis on the contributions of physics, biophysics and technology, and the challenges remaining in the optimization and adoption of this treatment modality. A theme of the review is the complexity of PDT dosimetry due to the dynamic nature of the three essential components -- light, photosensitizer and oxygen. Considerable progress has been made in understanding the problem and in developing instruments to measure all three, so that optimization of individual PDT treatments is becoming a feasible target. The final section of the review introduces some new frontiers of research including low dose rate (metronomic) PDT, two-photon PDT, activatable PDT molecular beacons and nanoparticle-based PDT.
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- Brian C Wilson
- Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Jarvi MT, Niedre MJ, Patterson MS, Wilson BC. Singlet oxygen luminescence dosimetry (SOLD) for photodynamic therapy: current status, challenges and future prospects. Photochem Photobiol 2007; 82:1198-210. [PMID: 16808593 DOI: 10.1562/2006-05-03-ir-891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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As photodynamic therapy (PDT) continues to develop and find new clinical indications, robust individualized dosimetry is warranted to achieve effective treatments. We posit that the most direct PDT dosimetry is achieved by monitoring singlet oxygen (1O2), the major cytotoxic species generated photochemically during PDT. Its detection and quantification during PDT have been long-term goals for PDT dosimetry and the development of techniques for this, based on detection of its near-infrared luminescence emission (1270 nm), is at a noteworthy stage of development. We begin by discussing the theory behind singlet-oxygen luminescence dosimetry (SOLD) and the seminal contributions that have brought SOLD to its current status. Subsequently, technology developments that could potentially improve SOLD are discussed, together with future areas of research, as well as the potential limitations of this method. We conclude by examining the major thrusts for future SOLD applications: as a tool for quantitative photobiological studies, a point of reference to evaluate other PDT dosimetry techniques, the optimal means to evaluate new photosensitizers and delivery methods and, potentially, a direct and robust clinical dosimetry system.
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- Mark T Jarvi
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Niedre M, Patterson MS, Wilson BC. Direct Near-infrared Luminescence Detection of Singlet Oxygen Generated by Photodynamic Therapy in Cells In Vitro and Tissues In Vivo¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)0750382dnildo2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 357] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Zeng H, Korbelik M, McLean DI, MacAulay C, Lui H. Monitoring Photoproduct Formation and Photobleaching by Fluorescence Spectroscopy Has the Potential to Improve PDT Dosimetry with a Verteporfin-like Photosensitizer¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)0750398mpfapb2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Kawauchi S, Sato S, Morimoto Y, Kikuchi M. Correlation Between Oxygen Consumption and Photobleaching During In Vitro Photodynamic Treatment with ATX-S10-Na(II) Using Pulsed Light Excitation: Dependence of Pulse Repetition Rate and Irradiation Time¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2004.tb00074.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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So G, Karotki A, Verma S, Pritzker K, Wilson B, Chiang LY. Comparison of Singlet Oxygen Generation Efficiency between Water‐Soluble C60‐Diphenylaminofluorene Conjugates and Molecular Micelle‐like FC4S. JOURNAL OF MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE PART A-PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/10916460600997629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Grace So
- a Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Toronto , Toronto, Canada
- b Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto , Toronto, Canada
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- d Department of Chemistry , University of Massachusetts Lowell , Lowell, MA
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- b Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto , Toronto, Canada
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- c Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network , Toronto, Canada
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- d Department of Chemistry , University of Massachusetts Lowell , Lowell, MA
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Ohmori S, Masuda K, Yoshida M, Arai T, Nakajima S. The study of the characteristic of photocytotoxicity under high peak power pulsed irradiation with ATX-S10Na(II) in vitro. Lasers Med Sci 2005; 20:54-61. [PMID: 16007477 DOI: 10.1007/s10103-005-0342-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2005] [Revised: 04/04/2005] [Accepted: 05/12/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We studied hydrophilic photosensitizer ATX-S10Na(II) mediated photocytotoxicity against macrophage-like cell under pulsed irradiation. We found that photocytotoxicity suppression under high intensity irradiation was directly induced by a decrease in the Type-II photoreaction. We showed that this decrease was not attributable to absorption saturation with the high intensity irradiation. We found the cell lethality change from 70% to 13% with the pulse peak power density ranging from 0.29 MW/cm(2) to 1.36 MW/cm(2), at the light dose of 20 J/cm(2) and the pulse repetition rate at 40 Hz. To investigate the Type-II reaction, we measured the photobleaching, oxygen consumption and singlet oxygen luminescence of the photosensitizer solution. The transient absorption from the photosensitizer during the irradiation was measured with the pump-and-probe technique. We believe that the photocytotoxicity suppression induced by the high intensity irradiation might be useful for the treatment of depth-controlled photodynamic therapy without the wall damage of a hollow organ.
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- Sayaka Ohmori
- School of Fundamental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan.
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Amelink A, van der Ploeg van den Heuvel A, de Wolf WJ, Robinson DJ, Sterenborg HJCM. Monitoring PDT by means of superficial reflectance spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2005; 79:243-51. [PMID: 15896651 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2005.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2004] [Revised: 12/20/2004] [Accepted: 01/24/2005] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Monitoring of relevant parameters during photodynamic therapy (PDT) and correlating these with treatment response is necessary to guarantee optimal and reproducible treatment outcome. In this paper we study the correlation between changes in the local tissue optical properties (absorption and scattering coefficients) during ALA-PDT and changes in PpIX fluorescence. The optical properties are measured extremely superficially by employing a single fiber for the delivery and collection of white light to and from the tissue. The measured reflectance spectrum is modeled in terms of four relevant parameters: blood saturation, relative blood volume fraction, scattering intensity and wavelength dependence of the scattering. All these parameters, except the relative blood volume fraction, are shown to correlate with the rate of photobleaching of PpIX, which in turn has previously been shown to correlate with the response of tissues to PDT. These results yield valuable insight in the behavior of these parameters during PDT and their suitability to predict PDT-response for other photosensitizers for which monitoring through photobleaching is not possible.
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- A Amelink
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy, Room Wk-308, Erasmus MC, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Niedre MJ, Yu CS, Patterson MS, Wilson BC. Singlet oxygen luminescence as an in vivo photodynamic therapy dose metric: validation in normal mouse skin with topical amino-levulinic acid. Br J Cancer 2005; 92:298-304. [PMID: 15655542 PMCID: PMC2361839 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Although singlet oxygen (1O2) has long been proposed as the primary reactive oxygen species in photodynamic therapy (PDT), it has only recently been possible to detect it in biological systems by its luminescence at 1270 nm. Having previously demonstrated this in vitro and in vivo, we showed that cell survival was strongly correlated to the 1O2 luminescence in cell suspensions over a wide range of treatment parameters. Here, we extend this to test the hypothesis that the photobiological response in vivo is also correlated with 1O2 generation, independent of individual treatment parameters. The normal skin of SKH1-HR hairless mice was sensitised with 20% amino-levulinic acid-induced protoporophyrin IX and exposed to 5, 11, 22 or 50 J cm−2 of pulsed 523 nm light at 50 mW cm−2, or to 50 J cm−2 at 15 or 150 mW cm−2. 1O2 luminescence was measured during treatment and the photodynamic response of the skin was scored daily for 2 weeks after treatment. As observed by other authors, a strong irradiance dependence of the PDT effect was observed. However, in all cases the responses increased with the 1O2 luminescence, independent of the irradiance, demonstrating for the first time in vivo an unequivocal mechanistic link between 1O2 generation and photobiological response.
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- M J Niedre
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Juravinski Cancer Center,Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada. E-mail:
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Yu C, Canteenwala T, El-Khouly ME, Araki Y, Pritzker K, Ito O, Wilson BC, Chiang LY. Efficiency of singlet oxygen production from self-assembled nanospheres of molecular micelle-like photosensitizers FC4S. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1039/b500369e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Sterenborg H, de Wolf J, Koning M, Kruijt B, van den Heuvel A, Robinson D. Phosphorescence-Fluorescence ratio imaging for monitoring the oxygen status during photodynamic therapy. OPTICS EXPRESS 2004; 12:1873-1878. [PMID: 19475018 DOI: 10.1364/opex.12.001873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The effectiveness of photodynamic therapy is strongly dependent on the availabilty of oxygen. In the present paper we show that the ratio between photosensitiser phosphorescence and fluorescence is a parameter that can be used to monitor the competition between singlet oxygen production and other processes quenching the photosensitiser triplet state. We present a theoretical basis for the validity of this approach and a series of in vitro imaging experiments.
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Kawauchi S, Sato S, Morimoto Y, Kikuchi M. Correlation Between Oxygen Consumption and Photobleaching During In Vitro Photodynamic Treatment with ATX-S10·Na(II) Using Pulsed Light Excitation: Dependence of Pulse Repetition Rate and Irradiation Time¶. Photochem Photobiol 2004. [DOI: 10.1562/2004-03-27-ra-125.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Sudworth CD, Stringer MR, Cruse-Sawyer JE, Brown SB. Fluorescence microspectroscopy technique for the study of intracellular protoporphyrin IX dynamics. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2003; 57:682-688. [PMID: 14658702 DOI: 10.1366/000370203322005382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We describe a technique designed to monitor the fluorescence dynamics of photosensitizers used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) at micrometer-scale locations within individual formalin-fixed cells. The accumulation of protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) within keratinocytes and fibroblasts. following incubation with 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA), is shown to be dependent upon both incubation time and cell proliferation status. Also, the process of photobleaching within these cells is demonstrated via the depletion in PpIX fluorescence emission during exposure to 532 nm light. All spectra show a progressive reduction of the 634 nm PpIX peak, following a bi-exponential decay that is consistent with a singlet oxygen mediated process. The rate of photobleaching, when plotted as a function of light dose, increases with reduced incident laser power. The generation of the hydroxyaldehyde-chlorin photoproduct (photoprotoporphyrin), as monitored by the increase in fluorescence emission centered on 672 nm, is also greatest when the lowest laser power is applied. When light is delivered in two fractions, PpIX fluorescence recovers during the dark period and there is an increase in bleaching rate at the onset of the second exposure. These results are qualitatively consistent with measurements performed in vivo, which demonstrate that the photodynamic dose is dependent upon fluence rate and oxygen status.
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- Caroline D Sudworth
- School of Medicine, Medical Physics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
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Xu S, Zhang X, Chen S, Zhang M, Shen T. EPR studies of the photodynamic properties of a novel potential photodynamic therapeutic agent: photogeneration of semiquinone radical anion and active oxygen species (O2˙−, OH˙, H2O2and1O2). Photochem Photobiol Sci 2003; 2:871-6. [PMID: 14521225 DOI: 10.1039/b303293k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cyclohexylamino-substituted hypocrellin B (CHAHB) has been synthesized with the aim of improving the red absorption and specific affinity for malignant tumors over those of the parent compound. Irradiation of a deoxygenated DMSO solution of CHAHB generates a strong electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signal, which is assigned to the semiquinone radical anion of CHAHB with the aid of a series of experimental results. In the presence of oxygen, superoxide radical anions (O2*-) are generated via electron transfer from CHAHB*-, the precursor, to ground-state molecular oxygen. Hydroxyl radicals were detected by spin-trapping EPR when an oxygen-saturated aqueous solution containing CHAHB and DMPO was irradiated. Singlet oxygen (1O2) is produced via energy transfer from triplet CHAHB to ground-state oxygen molecules, with a sharply decreased quantum yield, i.e. 0.11. Furthermore, cell survival studies reveal CHAHB exhibits much higher photodynamic activities than its parent hypocrellins. The strongly enhanced photodynamic activities and sharply decreased quantum yield of 1O2 generation suggest that the type I (free radical) mechanism may play a significant role in CHAHB-PDT, rather than the type II (singlet oxygen) mechanism found in photofrin-PDT.
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- Shangjie Xu
- Center for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China
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Pech O, Nagy CD, Gossner L, May A, Ell C. Photodynamic therapy of human Barrett's cancer using 5-aminolaevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX: an in-vivo dosimetry study in athymic nude mice. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2002; 14:657-62. [PMID: 12072600 DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200206000-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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OBJECTIVE There has been a dramatic increase in recent years in the incidence of Barrett's oesophagus and the oesophageal adenocarcinoma associated with it. Alongside surgical treatment for early Barrett's carcinomas, endoscopic treatment procedures such as photodynamic therapy (PDT), which have much lower complication and mortality rates, will play an increasing role in the future. In this study, the effects of light energy dose, light fractionation and oxygenation on the efficacy of PDT were investigated for the first time in an in-vivo nude mice tumour model bearing a human Barrett's carcinoma. DESIGN A total of 387 NMRI strain (nu/nu) nude mice with thymic aplasia (total 53 controls) were transplanted with human Barrett's carcinoma and treated with laser light at 635 nm (light dose 0-200 J/cm2, fluence rate 400 mW/cm2). 5-Aminolaevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX (5-ALA-PpIX) (100 mg 5-ALA/kg body weight administered orally) was used as the photosensitizer. METHODS Fractionation studies were performed at 0, 50, 100 and 150 J/cm2. The light dose was administered in four equal fractions divided by three irradiation-free intervals of 120 s. Oxygenation studies were carried out at 150 J/cm2 with simultaneous oxygen supply of 2, 6 and 8 l oxygen/min. RESULTS Dosimetry studies demonstrated a positive correlation between increase in light dose and tumour destruction up to 150 J/cm2 when using either continuous or fractionated light delivery. The optimal light energy dose was 150 J/cm2. Neither fractionation of light nor simultaneous oxygenation enhanced the efficacy of the PDT. CONCLUSION This is the first study in the literature that proves the efficiency of PDT with 5-ALA-PpIX in human Barrett's adenocarcinoma and that demonstrates an exact dosimetry of the optimal light energy dose (150 J/cm2). No general recommendation can be made for the use of fractionation or oxygenation in clinical PDT.
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- Oliver Pech
- Department of Medicine II, HSK Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
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Zeng H, Korbelik M, McLean DI, MacAulay C, Lui H. Monitoring photoproduct formation and photobleaching by fluorescence spectroscopy has the potential to improve PDT dosimetry with a verteporfin-like photosensitizer. Photochem Photobiol 2002; 75:398-405. [PMID: 12003130 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)075<0398:mpfapb>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In current clinical practice, photodynamic therapy (PDT) is carried out with prescribed drug doses and light doses as well as fixed drug-light intervals and illumination fluence rates. This approach can result in undesirable treatment outcomes of either overtreatment or undertreatment because of biological variations between different lesions and patients. In this study, we explore the possibility of improving PDT dosimetry by monitoring drug photobleaching and photoproduct formation. The study involved 60 mice receiving the same drug dose of a novel verteporfin-like photosensitizer, QLT0074, at 0.3 mg/kg body weight, followed by different light doses of 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 J/cm2 at 686 nm and a fluence rate of 70 mW/cm2. Photobleaching and photoproduct formation were measured simultaneously, using fluorescence spectroscopy. A ratio technique for data processing was introduced to reliably detect the photoproduct formed by PDT on mouse skin in vivo. The study showed that the QLT0074 photoproduct is stable and can be reliably quantified. Three new parameters, photoproduct score (PPS), photobleaching score (PBS) and percentage photobleaching score (PBS%), were introduced and tested together with the conventional dosimetry parameter, light dose, for performance on predicting PDT-induced outcome, skin necrosis. The statistical analysis of experimental results was performed with an ordinal logistic regression model. We demonstrated that both PPS and PBS improved the prediction of skin necrosis dramatically compared to light dose. PPS was identified as the best single parameter for predicting the PDT outcome.
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- Haishan Zeng
- Cancer Imaging Department, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada.
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Tian C, Xu S, Chen S, Shen J, Zhang M, Shen T. Chelation of hypocrellin B with zinc ions with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) evidence of the photodynamic activity of the resulting chelate. Free Radic Res 2001; 35:543-54. [PMID: 11767412 DOI: 10.1080/10715760100301551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Hypocrellin B (HB), a perylenequinone derivative, is an efficient phototherapeutic agent. The chelation of HB with Zinc ions (Zn2+) results in a metal chelate (Zn-HB) which exhibits considerable absorption (lambda max = 612 nm) in the phototherapeutic window. The structure of this chelate has been characterized by UV-Vis, IR and mass spectra. The redox potentials of the Zn-HB chelate were Eox = +1.1 V (vs. SCE) and Ere = -0.7 V (vs. SCE) as measured using the circle volt curve. The quantum yield of singlet oxygen generated by the Zn-HB chelate was 0.86, which both the electron spin trap (EPR) method and the chemical trap method show to be about 0.1 higher than that of its parent compound HB. In irradiated oxygen-saturated solutions of Zn-HB chelate, superoxide radical anions and hydroxyl radicals were detected by EPR spectroscopy using 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO) as the spin-trapping agent.
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- C Tian
- Center for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, P.R. China
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Oldham TC, Phillips D, MacRobert AJ. Attempts to measure sensitiser photophysics in opaque tissue. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 2001; 61:129-36. [PMID: 11535412 DOI: 10.1016/s1011-1344(01)00176-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Diffuse reflectance laser flash photolysis has been used in an attempt to measure transient triplet spectra of the sensitisers, disulphonated aluminium phthalocyanine and porphyrin IX (derived from 5-amino laevulinic acid), in opaque tissue and models. The latter consisted of tissue phantoms; the former included rat liver and red blood cells. In all cases, triplet-triplet absorption spectra with relatively poor signal-to-noise were obtained providing some encouragement in the application of this technique to in vivo studies on photosensitisers.
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- T C Oldham
- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, South Kensington, London SW7 2AY, UK
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Molckovsky A, Wilson BC. Monitoring of cell and tissue responses to photodynamic therapy by electrical impedance spectroscopy. Phys Med Biol 2001; 46:983-1002. [PMID: 11324973 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/4/306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Electrical impedance spectroscopic (EIS) monitoring of photodynamic therapy (PDT) was investigated in vivo in rat liver and in vitro in multicellular spheroids. Liver impedance was continuously measured with two needle electrodes before, during and up to 3 hours following Photofrin-PDT. EIS spectra were altered immediately after PDT, with significant changes in conductivity at approximately 10 kHz, and in permittivity at approximately 30 kHz and 1 MHz. The change in permittivity at high frequencies was related to oedema, while low-frequency effects were attributed to cell necrosis and vascular changes. Photofrin-PDT-treated spheroids showed dose-dependent decreases in permittivity and conductivity at frequencies above 10 and 100 kHz, respectively. Histology showed concomitant development of a damaged rim containing sparsely distributed cells with compromised membranes and lightly staining cytoplasm. Different EIS responses to apoptotic versus necrotic modes of cell death further verified the sensitivity of impedance to purely cellular changes in the spheroid model. In conclusion, EIS sensitivity to PDT-induced damage, at both the cell and tissue level, varies with dose and time, and can be correlated qualitatively to biological changes.
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- A Molckovsky
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute/University of Toronto, Canada
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González S, Vibhagool C, Sherwood M, Flotte TJ, Kollias N. The phototoxicity of photodynamic therapy may be suppressed or enhanced by modulation of the cutaneous vasculature. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 2000; 57:142-8. [PMID: 11154080 DOI: 10.1016/s1011-1344(00)00089-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In photodynamic therapy, the threshold for light induced toxicity depends on the drug concentration and the light dose. This study was aimed to show for vascular photosensitizers that the toxicity threshold on normal tissue may be predictably modified by modulation of the cutaneous vasculature. Albino rabbits were injected with 1.0 mg/kg of a vascular photosensitizer, benzoporphyrin derivative monoacid ring-A. The threshold light dose for toxicity to normal skin was determined at an absorption maximum of the drug (694 nm), 1 h after drug injection. The cutaneous vasculature was dilated by prior skin exposure to ultraviolet radiation or was constricted by iontophoretic application of epinephrine. Threshold toxicity was determined clinically and by assessing the effective concentration of hemoglobin in the skin by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS). Tissue samples that received threshold doses were investigated with light and electron microscopy. The toxicity threshold increased by 3.2+/-0.9 (mean+/-S.D.) following vasoconstriction and decreased by 3.6+/-0.8 following vasodilation, compared to control sites. Light and electron microscopy showed similar findings at threshold for both vasodilated and vasoconstricted sites. Therefore vascular modulation may be used to predictably enhance or suppress the level of phototoxicity of normal skin.
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- S González
- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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Reiter I, Schwamberger G, Krammer B. Activation of macrophage tumoricidal activity by photodynamic treatment in vitro--indirect activation of macrophages by photodynamically killed tumor cells. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 1999; 50:99-107. [PMID: 10515075 DOI: 10.1016/s1011-1344(99)00078-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Macrophages constitute a major part of natural tumor defense by their capacity to destroy selectively a broad range of tumor types upon specific activation. In the last couple of years, these cells have also been implicated as effector cells in the destruction of tumors by photodynamic therapy. In the present work, the potential role of macrophage-mediated tumor cytotoxicity after photodynamic treatment in vitro has been investigated with respect to photodynamic activation of macrophages for tumoricidal effector functions. Our data show that photodynamic treatment of highly pure murine bone-marrow-derived macrophages with the hematoporphyrin derivative Photosan-3 does not result in activation of these cells for cytotoxicity against YAC-1 tumor cells or secretion of tumor necrosis factor and nitric oxide, irrespective of co-stimulation with interferon-gamma, a potent priming agent for macrophage antitumoral activity. On the contrary, treatment with higher photosensitizer doses is found to reduce markedly the viability of the macrophage effector cells. Thus, these results do not lend any support to the hypothesis of direct macrophage activation by photodynamic treatment. However, macrophages are found to be activated for tumoricidal effector functions indirectly by photodynamically killed tumor cells, in a way reminiscent of phagocytosis-inducing stimuli. It is thus suggested that recognition and phagocytosis of photodynamically destroyed tumor cells constitutes the major signal for local activation of macrophages in photodynamically treated tumor tissues, which may be crucial for final, specific eradication by the immune system of tumor cells surviving photodynamic treatment.
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- I Reiter
- Institute of Physics and Biophysics, University of Salzburg, Austria.
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Tudge SH, Kaye AH, Hill JS. Modulation of light delivery in photodynamic therapy of brain tumours. J Clin Neurosci 1999; 6:227-32. [DOI: 10.1016/s0967-5868(99)90508-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/1998] [Accepted: 05/05/1998] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Sorensen R, Lani V, Moan J. Kinetics of Photobleaching of Protoporphyrin IX in the Skin of Nude Mice Exposed to Different Fluence Rates of Red Light. Photochem Photobiol 1998. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1998.tb05292.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ehrenberg B, Anderson JL, Foote CS. Kinetics and Yield of Singlet Oxygen Photosensitized by Hypericin in Organic and Biological Media. Photochem Photobiol 1998. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1998.tb02479.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Viola A, Jeunet A, Decreau R, Chanon M, Julliard M. ESR studies of a series of phthalocyanines. Mechanism of phototoxicity. Comparative quantitation of O2-. using ESR spin-trapping and cytochrome c reduction techniques. Free Radic Res 1998; 28:517-32. [PMID: 9702532 DOI: 10.3109/10715769809066889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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ESR experiments with 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidone (4-oxo-TEMP) and the spin-trap 5,5-dimethyl pyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO) have been performed on a series of new phthalocyanines: the bis(tri-n-hexylsiloxy) silicon phthalocyanine ([(nhex)3SiO]2SiPc), the hexadecachloro zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPcCl16), the hexadecachloro aluminum phthalocyanine (AlPcCl16), the hexadecachloro aluminum phthalocyanine sulfate (HSO4AlPcCl16), whose photocytotoxicity has been studied against various leukemic and melanotic cell lines. Type I and Type II pathways occur simultaneously in DMF although the Type II seems to be prevalent. These results are not changed when the bis(tri-n-hexylsiloxy) silicon phthalocyanine is entrapped into liposomes. By contrast, the Type I process is favored in membrane models for all the perchlorinated phthalocyanines. This modified behavior may be accounted on a possible stacking of phthalocyanines in membranes and a preventing effect of axial ligands against aggregation in the case of the bis(tri-n-hexylsiloxy) silicon phthalocyanine. The photodynamic action of zinc perchlorinated phthalocyanine is not dependent on singlet oxygen, phototoxicity of this molecule being essentially mediated by oxygen free radicals. Quantitation of the superoxide radical was accomplished, with good agreement, by two techniques: the cytochrome c reduction and the ESR quantitation based on the double integration of the first derivative of the ESR signal. The disproportionation of the superoxide radical or degradation of the spin-trap seem to be avoided in aprotic solvents such as DMF.
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- A Viola
- Laboratoire AM3-ESA 6009, Faculté des Sciences Saint-Jérôme, Marseille, France
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Robinson DJ, de Bruijn HS, van der Veen N, Stringer MR, Brown SB, Star WM. Fluorescence photobleaching of ALA-induced protoporphyrin IX during photodynamic therapy of normal hairless mouse skin: the effect of light dose and irradiance and the resulting biological effect. Photochem Photobiol 1998. [PMID: 9477772 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1998.tb05177.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The photobleaching of 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA)-induced protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) was investigated during superficial photodynamic therapy (PDT) in normal skin of the SKH HR1 hairless mouse. The effects of light dose and fluence rate on the dynamics and magnitude of photobleaching and on the corresponding PDT-induced damage were examined. The results show that the PDT damage cannot be predicted by the total light dose. Photobleaching was monitored over a wide range of initial PpIX fluorescence intensities. The rate of PpIX photobleaching is not a simple function of fluence rate but is dependent on the initial concentration of sensitizer. Also, at high fluence rates (50-150 mW/cm2, 514 nm) oxygen depletion is shown to have a significant effect. The rate of photobleaching with respect to light dose and the corresponding PDT damage both increase with decreasing fluence rate. We therefore suggest that the definition of a bleaching dose as the light dose that causes a 1/e reduction in fluorescence signal is insufficient to describe the dynamics of photobleaching and PDT-induced damage. We have detected the formation of PpIX photoproducts during the initial period of irradiation that were themselves subsequently photobleached. In the absence of oxygen, PpIX and its photoproducts are not photobleached. We present a method of calculating a therapeutic dose delivered during superficial PDT that demonstrates a strong correlation with PDT damage.
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- D J Robinson
- Centre for Photobiology and Photodynamic Therapy, Research School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK.
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Wilson BC, Patterson MS, Lilge L. Implicit and explicit dosimetry in photodynamic therapy: a New paradigm. Lasers Med Sci 1997; 12:182-99. [PMID: 20803326 DOI: 10.1007/bf02765099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 262] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/1996] [Accepted: 02/04/1997] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Dosimetry for photodynamic therapy (PDT) is becoming increasingly complex as more factors are identified which may influence the effectiveness of a given treatment. The simple prescription of a PDT treatment in terms of the administered photosensitizer dose, the incident light and the drug-light time interval does not account for patient-to-patient variability in either the photosensitizer uptake, tissue optical properties or tissue oxygenation, nor for the interdependence of the photosensitizer-light-tissue factors. This interdependence is examined and the implications for developing adequate dosimetry for PDT are considered. The traditional dosimetric approach, measuring each dose factor independently, and termed here 'explicit dosimetry', may be contrasted with the recent trend to use photosensitizer photobleaching as an index of the effective delivered dose, termed here 'implicit dosimetry'. The advantages and limitations of each approach are discussed, and the need to understand the degree to which the photobleaching mechanism is linked, or 'coupled', to the photosensitizing mechanism is analysed. Finally, the influence of the tissue-response endpoints on the optimal dosimetry methods is considered.
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- B C Wilson
- Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Haylett AK, McNair FI, McGarvey D, Dodd NJ, Forbes E, Truscott TG, Moore JV. Singlet oxygen and superoxide characteristics of a series of novel asymmetric photosensitizers. Cancer Lett 1997; 112:233-8. [PMID: 9066733 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3835(96)04577-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The singlet oxygen quantum yields and superoxide quantum yields for a series of novel compounds based on an asymmetrical protoporphyrin molecule have been examined. Electron spin resonance was used to measure superoxide yield and time resolved luminescence for singlet oxygen. A comparison between these results and previously published cell survival data was carried out. A broad association was found between singlet oxygen quantum yield and clonogenic cell kill.
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- A K Haylett
- Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester, UK
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Nauta JM, van Leengoed HL, Star WM, Roodenburg JL, Witjes MJ, Vermey A. Photodynamic therapy of oral cancer. A review of basic mechanisms and clinical applications. Eur J Oral Sci 1996; 104:69-81. [PMID: 8804893 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0722.1996.tb00049.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an experimental cancer treatment modality. PDT is based on the accumulation of a photosensitive dye in premalignant and malignant lesions. A certain period of time after the dye has been administered, tumor tissue may contain more of the sensitizer then the surrounding normal tissues. When tissue containing the sensitizer is exposed to light of a proper wavelength and dose, a photochemical reaction between sensitizer and light will occur. The activated photosensitizer reacts with available oxygen which subsequently damages cells and eventually may cause necrosis of the tumor. Photosensitizers can also be used for fluorescence detection. If a tumor contains more of the photosensitizer than the surrounding normal tissue, its fluorescence can potentially be utilized to detect tumors. Analogous to PDT, this can therefore be referred to as photodynamic detection (PDD). This paper reviews the basic mechanisms and clinical applications of PDT and PDD. Emphasis is placed on PDD and PDT with the photosensitizer Photofrin for detection and treatment of premalignant epithelial lesions and squamous cell carcinomas of the oral mucosa.
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- J M Nauta
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment modality that utilizes a photosensitizing drug activated by laser generated light, and is proving effective for oncologic and nononcologic applications. This report provides an overview of photosensitizers, photochemistry, photobiology, and the lasers involved in photodynamic therapy. Clinical and preclinical PDT studies involving Photofrin and various second generation photosensitizers are reviewed.
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- A M Fisher
- Clayton Ocular Oncology Center, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, California 90027, USA
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Krieg M. Determination of singlet oxygen quantum yields with 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran in model membrane systems. JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL METHODS 1993; 27:143-9. [PMID: 8227944 DOI: 10.1016/0165-022x(93)90058-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The oxidation of 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran by singlet oxygen was investigated in methanol and in two different types of liposomes. It was found that at high concentrations of scavenger 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran, e.g., > 100 microM in methanol, the 1:1 oxidation stoichiometry is lost and more than one scavenger molecule per molecule of singlet oxygen is consumed. In model membrane systems, where local scavenger concentrations are high due to compartmentalization, correct singlet oxygen quantum yields with 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran are only determined if the increased oxidation is taken into account.
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- M Krieg
- Department of Pediatrics, MACC Fund Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226
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Natural and synthetic porphyrins in acetone solution or incorporated in lipid vesicle membranes. Photosensitization of singlet oxygen and of the methyl red—ascorbate oxidation—reduction. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(92)85151-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Gorman AA, Rodgers MA. Current perspectives of singlet oxygen detection in biological environments. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 1992; 14:159-76. [PMID: 1432388 DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(92)85095-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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There is widespread acceptance that singlet oxygen is a key intermediate on one of the pathways leading to the phenomenon of photodynamic action. However, the identification of this moiety within a particular biological system and the determination of a direct link between its presence and a particular photodynamic effect is a goal which photobiologists have hitherto failed to achieve. The aim of this review is to assess the problems associated with such a goal and methods whereby they might be overcome. Initially the general photochemical and environmental factors which govern the ability of a photosensitizer to promote photodynamic action via the intermediacy of singlet oxygen are introduced and the fundamental parameters defining the formation, decay and reactivity of this species summarized. The experimental requirements for relating a particular photodynamic effect to singlet oxygen intermediacy are then analysed and the intrinsic properties of singlet oxygen which will influence this goal are discussed. Having concluded that the singlet oxygen detection method of choice for this purpose is that in which the IR emission at 1269 nm of this molecule is monitored, the advantages and disadvantages of pulsed and continuous wave photoexcitation of cellular systems are analysed. It becomes evident that, no matter what the future improvements in instrumentation are likely to be, the inherent natures of singlet oxygen and the biological system lead to a kinetic situation which will preclude a successful time-resolved solution to this problem. In contrast, experimentation with continuous wave systems holds out significant hope for the future. In particular, the use of phase modulation techniques to overcome background emission problems, the enhancement of photosensitizer optical densities as a consequence of higher extinction coefficients and/or improved photosensitizer delivery systems and the use of high power lasers and/or improved light delivery systems can, at least in principle, lead to the solution of the problem addressed herein.
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- A A Gorman
- Chemistry Department, University of Manchester, UK
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Singlet oxygen lifetimes for detergent-dispersed L1210 leukemia cells in deuterium oxide buffer were measured by following the decay of 1270 nm phosphorescence. Four photosensitizers and two detergents were studied. Stern-Volmer plots were linear over the cell concentration range studied (0-10(7) cells/mL). The singlet-oxygen quenching constants obtained depended somewhat upon the specific combination of detergent and photosensitizer used. Extrapolation of the singlet-oxygen lifetime data to "100%" cell concentration (1.39 +/- 0.04 x 10(9) cells/mL) and correction for the contribution of the water solvent gave a singlet-oxygen lifetime between 0.17 and 0.32 microseconds for the L1210 leukemia cell. The theoretical contributions of various types of biological molecules within the L1210 cell to the total singlet-oxygen quenching were calculated from their concentrations and their quenching constants. These calculations suggest that proteins will quench most of the singlet-oxygen. Only about 7% of the singlet-oxygen is quenched by water.
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- A Baker
- Research Service, Edward Hines Jr. Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, IL 60141
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Pascual C, Romay C. Effect of antioxidants on chemiluminescence produced by reactive oxygen species. JOURNAL OF BIOLUMINESCENCE AND CHEMILUMINESCENCE 1992; 7:123-32. [PMID: 1317990 DOI: 10.1002/bio.1170070205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Luminol chemiluminescence was used to evaluate the scavenging of superoxide, hydroxyl and alkoxy radicals by four antioxidants: dipyridamole, diethyldithiocarbamic acid, (+)catechin, and ascorbic acid. Different concentrations of these compounds were compared with well-known oxygen radical scavengers in their capacity to inhibit the chemiluminescence produced in the reaction between luminol and specific oxygen radicals. Hydroxyl radicals were generated using the Fenton reaction and these produced chemiluminescence which was inhibited by diethyldithiocarbamate. Alkoxy radicals were generated using the reaction of tert-butyl hydroperoxide and ferrous ion and produced chemiluminescence which was inhibited equally by all of the compounds tested. For the determination of superoxide scavengers we describe a new, simple, economic, and rapid chemiluminescence method consisting of the reaction between luminol and horseradish peroxidase (HRP). With this method it was found that 40 nmol/l dipyridamole, 0.18 mumol/l ascorbic acid, 0.23 mumol/l (+)catechin, and 3 mumol/l diethyldithiocarbamic acid are equivalent to 3.9 ng/ml superoxide dismutase (specific scavenger of superoxide) in causing the same degree of chemiluminescence inhibition. These results not only indicated that the antioxidative properties of these compounds showed different degrees of effectiveness against a particular radical but also that they may exert their action against more than one radical.
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- C Pascual
- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas, Playa, La Habana, Cuba
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- B W Henderson
- Division of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
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Gomer CJ. Preclinical examination of first and second generation photosensitizers used in photodynamic therapy. Photochem Photobiol 1991; 54:1093-107. [PMID: 1775531 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1991.tb02133.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Numerous photosensitizers with absorption peaks spanning the 600-800 nm "therapeutic window" have been and continue to be synthesized. Structural modifications of the dyes can then be made in order to improve tumor deliverability and retention. Chemical alterations can also enhance the yields of light generated reactive oxygen species. Utilization of lipoproteins, emulsions and antibody conjugates can enhance the selectivity of drug localization. Most cell types and subcellular structures are highly photosensitive and biochemical analysis indicates that cellular target sites associated with PDT correlate with photosensitizer location. In vivo data suggest that vascular and direct tumor cell damage as well as systemic and local immunological reactions are involved in PDT responsiveness. Additional mechanistic, synthetic and developmental studies are required in order to fully appreciate the potentials of PDT. However, continued enthusiasm and support for basic PDT research (as observed during the past 8 years) will depend to a large extent on the outcome of the current clinical trials.
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- C J Gomer
- Clayton Ocular Oncology Center, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, CA
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Baker A, Kanofsky JR. Direct observation of singlet oxygen phosphorescence at 1270 nm from L1210 leukemia cells exposed to polyporphyrin and light. Arch Biochem Biophys 1991; 286:70-5. [PMID: 1832832 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(91)90009-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Near-infrared emission (1170-1475 nm) was studied from L1210 leukemia cells incubated with polyporphyrin (fractionated hematoporphyrin derivative), suspended in deuterium oxide buffer, and then exposed to light. Following pulsed laser excitation, the near-infrared emission decayed in two phases. The first phase of the emission (0-2 microseconds) was principally due to polyporphyrin fluorescence. The second phase of the emission (20-90 microseconds) was due mainly to singlet oxygen. Evidence supporting the assignment of the second phase emission to singlet oxygen included a spectral analysis showing a peak near 1270 nm and reductions in the second phase emission caused by the singlet oxygen quenchers, histidine, carnosine, and water. The second phase emission decayed in a biexponential manner with lifetimes of 4.5 +/- 0.5 and 49 +/- 4 microseconds. Most of the singlet oxygen in the second phase emission was likely due to singlet oxygen that was generated near the surface of the L1210 leukemia cells and then diffused into the deuterium oxide buffer. Direct measurements of singlet oxygen phosphorescence at 1270 nm may prove to be a useful analytical technique for studying photochemical generation of singlet oxygen in cultured cells.
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- A Baker
- Research Service, Edward Hines, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois 60141
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Singlet oxygen, 1O2 (1 delta g), fulfills essential prerequisites for a genotoxic substance, like hydroxyl radicals and other oxygen radicals: it can react efficiently with DNA and it can be generated inside cells, e.g. by photosensitization and enzymatic oxidation. As might be anticipated from the non-radical character of singlet oxygen, the pattern of DNA modifications it produces is very different from that caused by hydroxyl radicals. While hydroxyl radicals produce DNA strand breaks and sites of base loss (AP sites) in high yield and react with all four bases of DNA, singlet oxygen generates predominantly modified guanine residues and few strand breaks and AP sites. There is now convincing evidence that a major product of base modification caused by singlet oxygen is 8-hydroxyguanine (7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine). Indeed, the recently reported miscoding properties of 8-hydroxyguanine can explain the predominant type of mutations observed when DNA modified by singlet oxygen is replicated in cells. There are also strong indications that singlet oxygen generated by photosensitization can act as an ultimate DNA modifying species inside cells. However, indirect genotoxic mechanisms involving other reactive oxygen species produced from singlet oxygen are also possible and appear to predominate in some cases. The cellular defense system against oxidants consists of effective singlet oxygen scavengers such as carotenoids. The observation that carotenoids can inhibit neoplastic cell transformation when administered not only together with but also after the application of chemical or physical carcinogens might indicate a role of singlet oxygen in tumor promotion that could be independent of the direct or indirect DNA damaging properties.
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- B Epe
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Würzburg, Germany
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