Figure 3.
TPE-IQ-2O has a relatively strong PDT effect in vitro. (A) The killing effect of TPE-IQ-2O as a photosensitizer on tumor tissue requires exposure to light. (B) In vivo small animal imaging was performed on day 7 after TPE-IQ-2O PDT or traditional 5-ALA PDT. The black arrow shows burned skin and tumor festering. (C) The anatomical findings for metastatic lung cancer after 5-ALA PDT (Day 14, indicated by the black arrow) and pathological HE staining are shown. (D) Representative images of HE staining of tissue samples from the TPE-IQ-20 PDT group and control group are shown, scale bar = 50 μm. (E) TPE-IQ-2O was performed with/without white light (5 W, 85 mW/cm2) irradiation in a zebrafish mCherry+ A549 cell xenograft model. (TPE represents the abbreviation of TPE-IQ-2O in this figure.)