Oxana Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, Sergey Sokolovski, Ivan Fedosov, Alexander Shirokov, Nikita Navolokin, Alla Bucharskaya, Inna Blokhina, Andrey Terskov, Alexander Dubrovski, Valeria Telnova, Anna Tzven, Maria Tzoy, Arina Evsukova, Daria Zhlatogosrkaya, Viktoria Adushkina, Alexander Dmitrenko, Maria Manzhaeva, Valeria Krupnova, Alessio Noghero, Denis Bragin, Olga Bragina, Ekaterina Borisova, Jürgen Kurths, Edik Rafailov
Over sixty years, laser technologies have undergone a technological revolution and become one of the main tools in biomedicine, particularly in neuroscience, neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumors. Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of brain cancer, with very limited treatment options and a poor prognosis. In this study on rats, we demonstrate that glioblastoma (GBM) growth can be suppressed by photosensitizer-free laser treatment (PS-free-LT) using a quantum-dot-based 1267 nm laser diode. This wavelength, highly absorbed by oxygen, is capable of turning triplet oxygen to singlet form...
September 5, 2023: International Journal of Molecular Sciences