Photosensitisation

Past, present and future of photosensitisers.- Primary photochemical processes.- Continuous irradiation and emission methods.- Fluorescence lifetimes of chromophores interacting with biomolecules.- Pulse radiolysis.- The photophysics and photochemistry of some dye sensitisers.- Spectral properties of hypericin-metal complexes.- Photolysis of the photosensitisers biothionol and fentichlor.- Laser flash photolysis and singlet oxygen quantum yields of anthracyclines.- Characterization of the anthralin radical by pulse radiolysis and laser photolysis.- Photophysical and photodynamic properties of new photosensitisers.- Photoacoustic spectroscopy in biomedical sciences.- Absolute determination of quantum yields of Photosensitisation by time resolved thermal lensing.- Hematoporphyrin-manganese: a contrast agent for tumors in magnetic resonance imaging.- Interactions of light with biological tissue.- Optical measurements on tissue layers.- The optical properties of tissues at 633 nanometers as related to light dosimetry in photodynamic therapy.- Applications of the change in tissue optical properties caused by the prescence of photosensitisers.- Mechanistic characterization of photosensitised reactions.- Singlet oxygen involvement in membrane photomodification.- Standards for singlet oxygen sensitization.- Biological and chemical photoproduction of hydrogen peroxide.- Cell models.- Biological target molecules and cell structures in mammalian cell photosensitization.- Porphyrin photosensitisation of mitochondria.- Nuclear damage in mammalian cell photosensitization.- Biological implications of lesions introduced into DNA by singlet oxygen.- Damage to DNA repair in Murine L929 fibroblasts induced by the photodynamic action of HPD.- Photoinactivation of cells studied by 31P-NMR.-Sunlight, melanogenesis, and free radicals in the skin.- Pulsed irradiation studies of some reactions of melanin precursors.- Melanin and photoprotection.- Pigmentogenic effects of psoralens.- Melanogenesis and light regulated experimental carcinogenesis.- Role of melanins and drugs in cutaneous photosensitivity.- Skin and related photoreactions.- Phototherapy for pruritus in primary biliary cirrhosis.- Psoralens: a review.- Mutagenesis of psoralens on eukaryotic cells.- Bichromophoric systems to study the base-psoralen photoreactions.- Photophysical behaviour of 5-methoxypsoralen in different solvent systems.- Furocoumarin photosensitized reations with fatty acids.- Furocoumarin photosensitisation: wavelength dependence of monoadduct and crosslink formation in yeast.- The use of animal models for human risk assessment of psoralen photocarcinogenesis.- Phototherapy and PUVA therapy.- Ocular phototoxicity.- Ocular protection for patients undergoing PUVA or photodynamic therapy.- Diseases associated with defective tetrapyrrole metabolism: porphyria and hyperbilirubinemia.- Photophysical and related aspects of haematoporphyrin and related systems.- Photophysical properties of chlorin derivatives of haematoporphyrin.- Insoluble polymer-supported porphyrins as photosensitisers.- Water-soluble metal napthalocyanines as potential photosensitisers.- HPDs chemical and biophysical studies.- Studies of Photofrin II - induced photosensitisation of human red blood cells: variability between blood samples.- In vitro uptake and photodynamic action of tetra (3-hydroxyphenyl) porphyrin in cells.- Quantitative aspects of the interaction of porphyrins with cells.- Uptake of the anticancer porphyrin mixture Photofrin II by human fibroblasts from low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein and albumin.- Parameters influencing photodynamic selectivity of normal progenitors vs leukemia cells.- Porphyrin-protein interaction.- Photomodification of porphyrins in biological systems.- Photoradiation therapy of rodent tumors.- Targets of porphyrins photodynamic action in vivo.- Phthalocyanines as sensitisers for photodynamic therapy of cancer.- Pulsed laser studies of aluminium phthalocyanine derivatives.- Zn-phthalocyanine as a possible phototherapeutic agent for tumors.- Photochemotherapy - clinical aspects.- In vivo fluorescence from mouse skin: spectral evidence for the presence of chlorophyll derivatives.- DHE uptake and PDT response in an in vitro tumor model.- Fluorescence diagnosis and photodynamic therapy evaluation of sensitisers by comparison of their pharmacokinetics.- In vivo aspects of PDT.- Alternative synthesis of "DHE" analogues.- New photosensitisers for PDT.- A dose response study of two purpurins on the AY-27 rat bladder tumor.- In vivo cytotoxicity of metallopurpurins to bladder tumors.- Potential phototoxicity in the photosensitive patient.- Participants.