Photodynamic therapy can induce a protective innate immune response against murine bacterial arthritis via neutrophil accumulation.

Photodynamic therapy can induce a protective innate immune response against murine bacterial arthritis via neutrophil accumulation.

Local microbial infections induced by multiple-drug-resistant bacteria in the orthopedic field can be intractable, therefore development of new therapeutic modalities is needed. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising alternative modality to antibiotics for intractable microbial infections, and we...

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Main Authors: Masamitsu Tanaka, Pawel Mroz, Tianhong Dai, Liyi Huang, Yuji Morimoto, Manabu Kinoshita, Yasuo Yoshihara, Koichi Nemoto, Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Suhji Seki, Michael R Hamblin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3383702?pdf=render

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