Targeted diagnostic/therapeutic agents having more than one different vectors
AssigneeNycomed Imaging AS
InventorsJo Klaveness, Pål Rongved, Anders Høgset, Helge Tolleshaug, Alan Cuthbertson, Lars Hoff, Klaus Bryn, Halldis Hellebust, Magne Solbakken
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Abstract
Targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agents, e.g. ultrasound contrast agents, comprising a suspension in an aqueous carrier liquid of a reporter comprising gas-containing or gas-generating material, said agent being capable of forming at least two types of binding pairs with a target.
Claims22
A targetable diagnostic and/or therapeutically active agent comprising a suspension in an aqueous carrier liquid of a reporter comprising gas-containing material in the form of phospholipid-stabilized gas microbubbles, said reporter being conjugated to more than one type of vector, the vectors binding to different targets on the same or different cells.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.