Hypericin as a Phototherapeutic Tool in Bladder Cancer

An In Vitro & In Vivo Evaluation

By Rugemalira Kamuhabwa
November 2002
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 90-5867-252-2
163 pages, Illustrated, 6 1/8" x 9 1/2"
$69.50 Paper Original


Contents of this Doctoral Dissertation include: photodynamic therapy, hypericin, bladder cancer, in vitro photodynamic activity of hypericin in human urinary bladder carcinoma cells, in vitro mechanistic study of cellular photodestruction induced by hypericin in bladder transitional cell carcinoma cells, in vivo photodynamic activity of hypericin in heterotopic transitional cell carcinoma bladder tumors after systematic administration, in vivo biodistribution of hypericin in orthotopic transitional cell carcinoma bladder tumors after intravesical administration, whole bladder wall photodynamic therapy of transitional cell carcinoma bladder tumors using hypericin.

Urology, Oncology
Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia 267

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