PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS

  

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PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS

Specialty Definition: PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS

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Health

Drugs that are pharmacologically inactive but when exposed to ultraviolet radiation or sunlight are converted to their active metabolite to produce a beneficial reaction affecting the diseased tissue. These compounds can be administered topically or systemically and have been used therapeutically to treat psoriasis and various types of neoplasms. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS

Specialty definitions using "PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS": Photochemotherapy, Photosensitivity Disorders, porfimer sodiumtemoporfin, tin ethyl etiopurpurin. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 48 4F 54 4F 53 45 4E 53 49 54 49 5A 49 4E 47      41 47 45 4E 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001000 01001111 01010100 01001111 01010011 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01010100 01001001 01011010 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000001 01000111 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#72 &#79 &#84 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#78 &#83 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#90 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#65 &#71 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 004F 0054 004F 0053 0045 004E 0053 0049 0054 0049 005A 0049 004E 0047      0041 0047 0045 004E 0054 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

504249544953394853435443604348412354139485453

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