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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2003
Stanley Beames Brown, Burley-in-Wharfedale, GB;
Andrea Lucille Bell, Bradford, GB;
John Griffiths, Leeds, GB;
Jack Schofield, Mirfield, GB;
Stanley Beames Brown, Burley-in-Wharfedale, GB;
Andrea Lucille Bell, Bradford, GB;
John Griffiths, Leeds, GB;
Jack Schofield, Mirfield, GB;
Photopharmica Limited, Leeds, GB;
Abstract
A compound for use as a photosensitiser in PDT, in photochemical internalisation in the production of a cancer vaccine or in the diagnosis or detection of medical conditions, the compound having a photosensitising chromophoric system, a sulphonamido functionality and a carboxy functionality. The compounds used in the present invention are photosensitisers in PDT in vivo, and show phototoxic activity in vitro. The compounds are used to treat pre-cancerous conditions, cancer, ophthalmological disease, vascular problems, arteriosclerosis and restenosis and autoimmune diseases, skin diseases and other benign conditions, and for anti-microbial treatments.