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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2002
Applicants:

Ronald W. Pero, Arlington, VT (US);

David Sherris, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);

Kevin G. Pinney, Woodway, TX (US);

Vani P. Mocharla, Waco, TX (US);

Zhi Chen, West Haven, CT (US);

Inventors:

Ronald W. Pero, Arlington, VT (US);

David Sherris, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);

Kevin G. Pinney, Woodway, TX (US);

Vani P. Mocharla, Waco, TX (US);

Zhi Chen, West Haven, CT (US);

Assignees:

Baylor University, Waco, TX (US);

OXiGENE, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K031/40 ; A61K031/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Treatment of warm-blooded animals having a tumor or non-malignant hypervascularation, by administering a sufficient amount of a cytotoxic agent formulated into a phosphate prodrug form having substrate specificity for microvessel phosphatases, so that microvessels are destroyed preferentially over other normal tissues, because the less cytotoxic prodrug form is converted to the highly cytotoxic dephosphorylated form.


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