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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jerry C Bommer, Ogden, UT (US);
Bruce F Burnham, Logan, UT (US);
Assignee:
Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514410 ; 540145 ; 424-9 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to new therapeutic compositions which are useful in photodiagnosis and phototherapy, especially in the detection and treatment of tumors and cancerous tissues in the human or animal body. The compounds of the present new therapeutic composition are mono-, di or polyamides of an amino monocarboxylic acid and a tetrapyrrole containing at least one carboxyl group of the structure ##STR1## wherein Z is the aminomonocarboxylic acid residue less the amino group, X is the tetrapyrrole residue less the carboxy group, and 'n' is an integer from 1 to 4 inclusive.