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SUBMITTER: Zhou X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7196320 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Xiao X Li Haidong H Shi Chao C Xu Feng F Zhang Zhen Z Yao Qichao Q Ma He H Sun Wen W Shao Kun K Du Jianjun J Long Saran S Fan Jiangli J Wang Jingyun J Peng Xiaojun X
Biomaterials 20200503
Photodynamic therapy has been developed as a prospective cancer treatment in recent years. Nevertheless, conventional photosensitizers suffer from lacking recognition and specificity to tumors, which causing severe side effects to normal tissues, while the enzyme-activated photosensitizers are capable of solving these conundrums due to high selectivity towards tumors. APN (Aminopeptidase N, APN/CD13), a tumor marker, has become a crucial targeting substance owing to its highly expressed on the c ...[more]