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ReviewJournal of lipid research2025

Participation of lipids in the tumor response to photodynamic therapy and its exploitation for therapeutic gain.

Mladen Korbelik, Michal Heger, Albert W Girotti

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Review in Journal of lipid research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Special Issue "Molecular Advances in Oncological Photodynamic Therapy".International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  5. Pro-tumor effects of nitric oxide from stress-upregulated inducible nitric oxide synthase in anti-tumor photodynamic therapy.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mladen KorbelikDepartment of Integrative Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Michal HegerJiaxing Key Laboratory for Photonanomedicine and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Medicine, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, P. R. China; Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: michal.heger@photonanomedicine.com.
Albert W GirottiDepartment of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Funding

IRON, NO, AND LIPID PEROXIDES IN PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPYR01CA070823 · NCI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI GIROTTI, ALBERT · 1997 to 2015
$3.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA070823
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydroperoxides of unsaturated membrane lipids (LOOHs) are the most abundant non-radical intermediates generated by photodynamic therapy (PDT) of soft tissues such as tumors and have far longer average lifetimes than singlet oxygen or oxygen radicals formed during initial photodynamic action. LOOH-initiated post-irradiation damage to remaining membrane lipids (chain peroxidation) or to membrane-associated proteins remains largely unrecognized. Such after-light processes could occur during clinical oncological PDT, but this is not well-perceived by practitioners of this therapy. In general, the pivotal influence of lipids in tumor responses to PDT needs to be better appreciated. Of related importance is the fact that most malignant tumors have dramatically different lipid metabolism compared with healthy tissues, and this too is often ignored. The response of tumors to PDT appears especially vulnerable to manipulations within the tumor lipid microenvironment. This can be exploited for therapeutic gain with PDT, as exemplified here by the combined treatment with the antitumor lipid edelfosine.

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Lipid MetabolismNeoplasmsPhotochemotherapyAnimalsHumansLipid Peroxidationantitumor lipidscancer treatmentlipid peroxidationlipid signalingmembrane dysfunctionoxidative damageoxidative stressrepair mechanismstumor lipid metabolism

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PMID39675508
PMCPMC11911859

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