Casas A

ORCID: 0000-0003-0286-0656 · 1 paper in corpus

2006

Mechanisms of 5-aminolevulinic acid ester uptake in mammalian cells.

British journal of pharmacology ·doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0706668

The porphyrin precursor 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is being widely used in photodynamic therapy of cancer. Improvement in ALA delivery has been sought through the use of ALA derivatives, in particular the esterification of ALA with aliphat…