Emory University

Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.

Other

Warner-lambert Company

Luigi G Marzilli

Raymond F Schinazi

Malgorzata Lipowska

Dabney W Dixon

David A Berry

James D Hoeschele

Andrew Taylor

Lory Hansen

Andrew T Taylor, Jr

This disclosure relates to the methods of imaging the kidneys and measuring renal function using the renal tracerTc(CO)(NTA) (technetium-99m tricarbonyl-nitrilotriacetic acid). The disclosure encompasses methods of imaging the kidneys and measuring effective renal plasma flow (ERPF) in an animal or human subject using renal scintigraphy, comprising administering to an animal or human subject an amount of a renal tracer, wherein the renal tracer comprisesTc-(CO)(NTA). Another aspect of the disclosure are methods of measuring effective renal plasma flow in an animal or human subject, comprising administering to an animal or human subject an amount of a renal tracer, wherein the renal tracer comprisesTc-(CO)(NTA), isolating a series of plasma samples from the animal or human subject after administering the renal tracer and quantitatively detecting the amount of the renal tracer in the biological samples.

Methods of determining renal function using technetium-99m tricarbonyl-nitrilotriacetic acid

The present invention relates to novel metal chelates, exemplified as technetium-99m or rhenium chelates, and to the process of preparing such metal chelates from corresponding ligands. These ligands and their corresponding metal chelates are synthesized to have a cysteinylethylene (EC) structure, a monothiourea (MTU) structure, or a dithiourea (DTU) structure. The present invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a metal chelate, for example, a .sup.99m Tc-chelate, to the use of the composition for renal imaging and examination of renal function, and to a kit for preparing such a composition prior to use.

Metal chelates as pharmaceutical imaging agents, processes of making

The present invention relates to novel metal chelates, exemplified as technetium-99m or rhenium chelates, and to the process of preparing such metal chelates from corresponding ligands. These ligands and their corresponding metal chelates are synthesized to have a cysteinylethylene (EC) structure, a thioacetamidethiourea (TATU) structure, or a dithiourea (DTU) structure. The present invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a metal chelate, for example, a .sup.99m Tc-chelate, to the use of the composition for renal imaging and examination of renal function, and to a kit for preparing such a composition prior to use.

Compositions for the inhibition of replication of human immunodeficiency virus containing one or more 'porphyrins' possessing antiviral activity. As used herein 'porphyrins' includes porphyrins, phthalocyanines, chlorins, metallo derivatives thereof, and other porphyrin-like compounds. Examples of natural and synthetic, positively, negatively, and neutrally charged porphyrins, phthalocyanines, and derivatives thereof have been found to exhibit selective anti-HIV activity which is not dependent on the presence of light.

Porphyrin and phthalocyanine antiviral compositions

Compositions for the treatment or prevention of AIDS or other diseases resulting from infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus containing one or more porphyrins. Porphyrins are tetrapyrrole macrocyle compounds with bridges of one carbon joining the pyrroles. Porphyrins occur naturally and are made synthetically. Derivatives of porphyrins include porphyrins with one or more substituents on one or more of the rings, porphyrins in which the conjugation of the ring has been altered by addition of substituents, porphyrins in which one or more center nitrogens is attached to substituents such as metals, liganded metals, and organic moieties, metalloporphyrins and metalloporphyrin-ligand complexes. Examples of natural and synthetic, positively, negatively, and neutrally charged porphyrins and porphyrin derivatives have been found to exhibit selective anti-HIV activity which is not dependent on the presence of light. Most of the compounds did not inhibit replication of herpes simplex virus type 1 or type 2 or Coxsackievirus strain B4. Effective concentrations for inhibition of HIV-1, as measured in vitro by inhibition of replication range from 0.01 to greater than 100 .mu.M. None of the compounds were toxic to unifected PBM cells.

Porphyrin antiviral compositions

Square-planar four-coordinate complexes of cis-platinum (II) with neutral bidentate aminoalkyl-substituted cycloalkylamine ligands and bromo-, chloro-, iodo-, nitrato-, oxalato-, or malanato-ligands possess antimicrobial activity as well as activity against transplanted L1210 and P388 murine leukemia cell lines.

Aminoalkyl-substituted cycloalkylamine platinum (II) complexes

Method for inhibiting infection or replication of human immunodeficiency

Square-planar four-coordinate complexes of cis-platinum(II) with neutral bidentate aminoalkyl-substituted cycloalkylamine ligands and bromo-, chloro-, iodo-, nitrato-, oxalato-, or malanato-ligands possess antimicrobial activity as well as activity against transplanted L1210 and P388 murine leukemia cell lines.

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Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Luigi G Marzilli