Photosens

Photosens is a mixture of sulfonated aluminium phthalocyanines with various degrees of sulfonation.http://www.photobiology.com/v1/nadezhda/default.htm "Clinical results of updating method of a photodynamic therapy with “Photosens” :use as transport protein human albumines and fractional injection."{{rs|date=January 2021}} Developed in Russia.

It is a photosensitiser (activated by 675 nm red light) sometimes used in photodynamic therapy trials.{{cite book |doi=10.1364/ECBO.2007.6632_64 |chapter=Adjuvant Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) with Photosensitizer Photosens for Superficial Bladder Cancer. Experimental investigations to treat prostate cancer by PDT with Photosens |title=Therapeutic Laser Applications and Laser-Tissue Interactions III |year=2007 |last1=Apolikhin |first1=Oleg I. |last2=Chernishov |first2=Igor V. |last3=Sivkov |first3=Andrey V. |last4=Altunin |first4=Denis V. |last5=Kuzmin |first5=Sergey G. |last6=Vorozhtsov |first6=Georgy N. |pages=6632_64 |id={{INIST|19084033}} |isbn=978-0-8194-6776-8 }}{{cite book |last1=Sokolov |first1=Victor V. |last2=Chissov |first2=Valery I. |last3=Yakubovskaya |first3=Raisa I. |last4=Aristarkhova |first4=E. I. |last5=Filonenko |first5=E. V. |last6=Belous |first6=T. A. |last7=Vorozhtsov |first7=Georgy N. |last8=Zharkova |first8=Natalia N. |last9=Smirnov |first9=V. V. |last10=Zhitkova |first10=Margarita B. |chapter=Photodynamic therapy (PDT) of malignant tumors by photosensitzer photosens: Results of 45 clinical cases |editor-first1=Benjamin |editor-first2=Giulio |editor-first3=Johan |editor-last1=Ehrenberg |editor-last2=Jori |editor-last3=Moan |title=Photochemotherapy: Photodynamic Therapy and Other Modalities |journal=Proceedings of the SPIE |date=31 January 1996 |volume=2625 |pages=281–287 |doi=10.1117/12.230943 |bibcode=1996SPIE.2625..281S |s2cid=72304555 }}

It has been tried on Age-related macular degeneration{{cite journal |last1=Avetisov |first1=SE |last2=Budzinskaia |first2=MV |last3=Kiseleva |first3=TN |last4=Kazarian |first4=EE |last5=Gurova |first5=IV |last6=Smirnova |first6=TV |last7=Shchegoleva |first7=IV |last8=Loshchenov |first8=VB |last9=Shevchik |first9=SA |last10=Kuz'min |first10=SG |last11=Vorozhtsov |first11=GN |title=[Photodynamic therapy for subretinal neovascular membranes. Communication 1. Results of treatment for age-related macular degeneration] |journal=Vestnik Oftalmologii |date=November 2007 |volume=123 |issue=6 |pages=3–7 |pmid=18225515 }}