• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Anti-Viral Photodynamic Inactivation of T4-like Bacteriophage as a Mammalian Virus Model in Blood
  • Beteiligte: Santos, Patrícia; Gomes, Ana T. P. C.; Lourenço, Leandro M. O.; Faustino, Maria A. F.; Neves, Maria G. P. M. S.; Almeida, Adelaide
  • Erschienen: MDPI AG, 2022
  • Erschienen in: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.3390/ijms231911548
  • ISSN: 1422-0067
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>The laboratorial available methods applied in plasma disinfection can induce damage in other blood components. Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) represents a promising approach and is approved for plasma and platelet disinfection using non-porphyrinic photosensitizers (PSs), such as methylene blue (MB). In this study, the photodynamic action of three cationic porphyrins (Tri-Py(+)-Me, Tetra-Py(+)-Me and Tetra-S-Py(+)-Me) towards viruses was evaluated under white light irradiation at an irradiance of 25 and 150 mW·cm−2, and the results were compared with the efficacy of the approved MB. None of the PSs caused hemolysis at the isotonic conditions, using a T4-like phage as a model of mammalian viruses. All porphyrins were more effective than MB in the photoinactivation of the T4-like phage in plasma. Moreover, the most efficient PS promoted a moderate inactivation rate of the T4-like phage in whole blood. Nevertheless, these porphyrins, such as MB, can be considered promising and safe PSs to photoinactivate viruses in blood plasma.</jats:p>
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