Evaluation of the correlation between porphyrin accumulation in cancer cells and functional positions for application as a drug carrier

Abstract Porphyrin derivatives accumulate selectively in cancer cells and are can be used as carriers of drugs. Until now, the substituents that bind to porphyrins (mainly at the meso-position) have been actively investigated, but the effect of the functional porphyrin positions (β-, meso-position)...

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Main Authors: Koshi Nishida, Toshifumi Tojo, Takeshi Kondo, Makoto Yuasa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81725-3