Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42515743›Full record

ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Natural Product-Based Upconversion-Downshifting Photosensitizers in Photodynamic Therapy.

Xiaohui Li, Siu Kan Law, Albert Wing Nang Leung, Mingfang Li, Chuanshan Xu

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Xiaohui LiGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Department of Dermatology, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510150, China.
Siu Kan LawIndependent Researcher, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0454-2048
Albert Wing Nang LeungSchool of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4623-8941
Mingfang LiGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Department of Dermatology, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510150, China.
Chuanshan XuGuangzhou Municipal and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Target & Clinical Pharmacology, The NMPA and State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 511436, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5107-8105

Funding

The graduate education innovation plan project of Guangdong Province-exemplary graduate course 2024SFKC_074
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural product-based upconversion photosensitizers (PSs) have emerged as innovative agents in photodynamic therapy (PDT). Lanthanide ions such as Yb

Indexed as

lanthanidenatural productphotodynamic therapyupconversion–downshifting nanoparticles (UDNPs)upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs)

Identifiers

PMID42515743
PMCPMC13415144

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.