Zinc, both in elemental or in its salt forms, has been used as a therapeutic modality for centuries. Topical preparations like zinc oxide, calamine, or zinc pyrithione have been in use as photoprotecting, soothing agents or as active ingredient of antidandruff shampoos. Its use has expanded m...
Zinc is an important trace mineral in the human body and a daily intake of zinc is required to maintain a healthy status. Over the past decades, zinc has been used in formulating topical and systemic therapies for various skin disorders owing to its wound healing and antimicrobial properties. ...
only three research papers formulated the non-substituted ZnPc into NE. Two of them used ZnPc-NE for photodynamic therapy (PDT) of skin cancer by means of magnetic NE or NE-based iontophoresis [12,40], and the other research paper reported the formulation of ZnPc-NE for aPDI ofLeishmaniaspe...