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A highly fluorescent and readily accessible all-organic photosensitizer model for advancing image-guided cancer PDT

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Far-red/NIR BODIPY probes in focus: tailored strategies for organelle-specific imaging and biomedical applications

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Non-aryl substituted aza-BODIPYs at 1,7- or 3,5-sites: synthesis, structures, optical properties, and applications

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Red fluorescent BODIPY-based nanoparticles for targeted cancer imaging-guided photodynamic therapy

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FRET-based two-photon benzo[a] phenothiazinium photosensitizer for fluorescence imaging-guided photodynamic therapy

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Introducing TAPY as a Versatile Alternative to TPP for Selective Mitochondrial Targeting in Cancer Cells

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Combination of PEG‐b‐PAA Carrier and Efficient Cationic Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy

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Chemistry An Asian Journal, 2023, 18
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Enhancing Phototoxicity in BODIPY‐Perylene Charge Transfer Dyads by Combined Iodination and Mesylation

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Lipophilic quaternary ammonium-functionalized BODIPY photosensitizers for mitochondrial-targeted photodynamic therapy and fluorescence cell imaging

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Discrimination of normal and cancerous human skin tissues based on laser-induced spectral shift fluorescence microscopy

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A near-infrared and lysosome-targeted coumarin-BODIPY photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy against HepG2 cells

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Advances in Near-Infrared BODIPY Photosensitizers: Design Strategies and Applications in Photodynamic and Photothermal Therapy

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Recent advances in organelle-targeted organic photosensitizers for efficient photodynamic therapy

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Photodynamic Therapy: From the Basics to the Current Progress of N-Heterocyclic-Bearing Dyes as Effective Photosensitizers

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Moderately Heavy Atom-Substituted BODIPY Photosensitizer with Mitochondrial Targeting Ability for Imaging-Guided Photodynamic Therapy

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Mitochondrial targeting of BODIPY photosensitizer with enhanced phototoxicity toward aggressive breast cancer cells compared to non-neoplastic breast epithelial cells

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BODIPY as a Multifunctional Theranostic Reagent in Biomedicine: Self‐Assembly, Properties, and Applications

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Cationic BODIPY Photosensitizers for Mitochondrion-Targeted Fluorescence Cell-Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy

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Pyridinium- and bromine-substituted distyryl-BODIPY dyes for mitochondria-targeted photodynamic therapy

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A hypoxia-responsive prodrug for specific drug release and synergistic chemo-photodynamic cancer therapy

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