Deposits of Beta-Amyloid in Fruit Flies Stopped by Using Porphyrin and Blue LED Lights
Medical application of photoactive chemicals offers a promising therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases. A Korean research team jointly led by Professor Chan Beum Park of Materials Science and Engineering Department at KAIST and Dr. Kwon Yu from Bionano Center at KRIBB conducted research to suppress an abnormal assembly of beta-amyloids by using photo-excited porphyrins.
Light-induced treatments using organic photosensitizers have advantages to managing the treatment in time and area. In the case of cancer treatments, doctors use photodynamic therapies where a patient is injected with an organic photosensitizer, and a light is shed on the patient’s lesion...
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