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Title: Use Of Green Porphyrinsto Treat Neovasculature In The Eyes

Patent ·
OSTI ID:879252

Photodynamic therapy of conditions of the eye characterized by unwanted neovasculature, such as age-related macular degeneration, is effective using green porphyrins as photoactive agents, preferably as liposomal compositions.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts General Hospital
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-91ER61228
Assignee:
The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, MA); Quadra Logic Technologies, Inc. (Vancouver, B.C., CA); Massachuesetts Eye & Ear Infirmary (Boston, MA)
Patent Number(s):
US 5798349
Application Number:
08/390591
OSTI ID:
879252
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Photodynamic Therapy of Experimental Choroidal Melanoma Using Lipoprotein-delivered Benzoporphyrin journal January 1994
Efficient syntheses of new classes of regiochemically pure benzoporphyrin derivatives journal December 1993

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