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| Author(s): |
Clara Maria Gonçalves de Faria
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2017-02-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato;
Rosangela Itri;
Kleber Thiago de Oliveira
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| Advisor: | Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato |
| Abstract | |
The principle of photodynamic therapy (PDT) was introduced around 1900 but further investigated as a candidate to cancer treatment in the 1970´s. Since then, there are several papers regarding the subject in vitro, in vivo and clinical trials and great advances were achieved. However, some challenges were not yet overcome, such as results variability. This work consists in the investigation of its causes, where the main goal is to advance the state of art of PDT. For that it is being used a threshold dose distribution model to evaluate cell resistance to PDT in vitro. The threshold distributions are obtained by differentiating the experimental dose response curve. They are characterized by its width and the dose that corresponds to the peak which relates to the homogeneity and intrinsic resistance of the population, respectively. In section 1, it is presented the evaluation and comparison of data obtained from published results in literature and, in section 2, of experiments performed by the author in different cell lines. From the analysis in the first part, it was observed that the width of the distribution is proportional to its dose of the peak and it was possible to investigate the dependence of the PDT result with the cell line, given a fixed photosensitizer (PS). It was also interesting to note that the threshold distribution corresponded to the activity curves for apoptotic cell markers as a function of light dose, for most of the conditions analyzed. From the experiments performed by the author, it was seen that the normal cell line was the most resistant one, followed by the resistant cancer cells and its parental cell line, and that its response was more homogeneous. Those finding were supported by the fluorescence microscopy images obtained to evaluate PS uptake, which shown that the tumor cells accumulated more PS than the other ones. Therefore, it was shown the potential of applying the threshold distribution to analyze PDT results in vitro, it is a powerful tool that provides more information than the standard dose response curves. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/06579-6 - Threshold dose distribution and its causes and consequences in photodynamic therapy |
| Grantee: | Clara Maria Gonçalves de Faria |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |