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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2009
Milind Rajopadhye, Westford, MA (US);
Kevin Groves, Somerville, MA (US);
Dorin V. Preda, Medford, MA (US);
Milind Rajopadhye, Westford, MA (US);
Kevin Groves, Somerville, MA (US);
Dorin V. Preda, Medford, MA (US);
VisEn Medical, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
Provided is a family of intramolecularly quenched imaging agents for use in both in vivo and in vitro imaging that contain at least one enzymatically cleavable oligopeptide and two fluorophores or a fluorophore and a quencher. When subjected to proteolytic cleavage, at least one fluorophore is unquenched and becomes capable of producing a fluorescent signal upon excitation with light of an appropriate wavelength. Also provided are in vivo and in vitro imaging methods using such imaging agents.