Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 777-785 , December 2010

Study of the stabilization of zinc phthalocyanine in sol-gel TiO2 for photodynamic therapy applications

  • Tessy Lopez, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Departamento de Atención a la Salud, México, DF
    • Instituto Nacional de Neurología Y Neurocirugía “MVS” Laboratorio de Nanotecnología, Tlalpan, México, DF
    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecules Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    • ,
  • Ema Ortiz, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Instituto Nacional de Neurología Y Neurocirugía “MVS” Laboratorio de Nanotecnología, Tlalpan, México, DF
    • ,
  • Mayra Alvarez, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Instituto Nacional de Neurología Y Neurocirugía “MVS” Laboratorio de Nanotecnología, Tlalpan, México, DF
    • ,
  • Juan Navarrete, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, México, DF
    • ,
  • Jose A. Odriozola, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Materiales de Sevilla, Centro Mixto CSIC-US, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, España
    • ,
  • Fernando Martinez-Ortega, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centro de investigacion de catalisis (CICAT), Depto de Quimica, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
    • ,
  • Edgar A. Páez-Mozo, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centro de investigacion de catalisis (CICAT), Depto de Quimica, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
    • ,
  • Patricia Escobar, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (CINTROP), Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
    • ,
  • Karla A. Espinoza, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Instituto Nacional de Neurología Y Neurocirugía “MVS” Laboratorio de Nanotecnología, Tlalpan, México, DF
    • ,
  • Ignacio A. Rivero, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centro de Graduados e Investigación, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, Tijuana, México, DF
    • Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Departamento de Química, Ocoyoacac, México, DF
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Centro de Graduados e Investigación, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, Apartado Postal 1166, 22000, Tijuana, BC, México.

Received 26 March 2009 ,Accepted 14 April 2010.

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 This work was supported by the Instituto Colombiano para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia “Francisco Jose de Caldas” COLCIENCIAS (Grant 1102-04-14130; RC No 480-2003), the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, and the program “Apoyo a los doctorados nacionales”, from COLCIENCIAS. Thanks to CONACYT-FONCICYT (Grant 96095).

PII: S1549-9634(10)00156-5

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2010.04.007

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 777-785 , December 2010

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