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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Ravindra K. Pandey, Williamsville, NY (US);
Lalit Goswami, Amherst, NY (US);
Joseph Spernyak, West Seneca, NY (US);
Peter Kanter, East Aurora, NY (US);
Richard Mazurchuk, Clarence Center, NY (US);
Ravindra K. Pandey, Williamsville, NY (US);
Lalit Goswami, Amherst, NY (US);
Joseph Spernyak, West Seneca, NY (US);
Peter Kanter, East Aurora, NY (US);
Richard Mazurchuk, Clarence Center, NY (US);
Health Research, Inc., Buffalo, NY (US);
Abstract
Novel tetrapyrollic water soluble photosensitizing and imaging compounds and the methods of treating and imaging hyperproliferative tissue, e.g. tumors and hypervacularized tissue such as found in macular degeneration. Broadly, the compounds are tetrapyrollic photosensitizer compounds where the tetrapyrollic compound is a chlorin, bacteriochlorin, porphyrin, pyropheophorbide, purpurinimide, or bacteriopurpurinimide having 3 to 6 —CHCONHphenylCHCH(N(CHCOOH)))(CHN(CHCOOH)(CHCHN(CHCOOH))) groups or esters thereof or complexes thereof with gadolinium(III).