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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
May. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Byron C. Robinson, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Avinash S. Phadke, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Miravant Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/1409 ; C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/1409 ; C07D / ;
Abstract
The invention disclosed herein involves a phototherapeutic pyrrolic core complexed with a non-radioactive Indium atom. Complexation of Indium by the pyrrolic core forms a metalopyrrolic compound which influences enables these compounds to localize at target sites a phototherapy. Such functionally aids in both detection and phototherapy of disease sites, or provides functionality that binds to site specific receptors of a target area such that the therapy is improved.