August 1990
Volume 31, Issue 8
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Bacteriochlorin a, a new photosensitizer in photodynamic therapy. In vivo results.
Author Affiliations
  • J J Schuitmaker
    Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • J A van Best
    Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • J L van Delft
    Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • T M Dubbelman
    Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • J A Oosterhuis
    Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • D de Wolff-Rouendaal
    Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science August 1990, Vol.31, 1444-1450. doi:
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      J J Schuitmaker, J A van Best, J L van Delft, T M Dubbelman, J A Oosterhuis, D de Wolff-Rouendaal; Bacteriochlorin a, a new photosensitizer in photodynamic therapy. In vivo results.. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 1990;31(8):1444-1450.

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Abstract

The photosensitizing properties of bacteriochlorin a (BCA), a nontoxic derivative of bacteriochlorophyll a, were investigated in vivo. BCA has an absorption band at a wavelength at which tissue penetration is optimal (760 nm), and it shows preferential tumor retention in Greene melanoma implanted in the anterior chamber of rabbit eyes. A dose of 20 mg/kg BCA was administered IV at 4-7 mm tumor diameter; 24 hr later the tumor was irradiated with near-infrared light (30 min, 760 nm, 150-280 J/cm2). On the day after the irradiation it appeared that tumor growth had stopped: fluorescein angiography showed nonperfusion of the tumor. Histopathology after enucleation showed subtotal tumor necrosis with occasionally small clusters of viable cells around a blood vessel and at the tumor periphery. Neither BCA nor light alone had any effect on the eye or melanoma.

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