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US 6,555,663 B1Granted
Prodrugs for selective drug delivery
OwnerRandell Lee Millsinventor
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Abstract
A broad class of pharmaceutical agents which react directly with electron carriers or with reactive species produced by electron transport to release a pharmacologically active molecule to effect a therapeutic functional change in the organism by a receptor or nonrecepter mediated action.
Claims2
A chemical compound having the formula A-B-C, where
- A is a chemiluminescent moiety which is capable of transferring energy from its own excited state to B;
- B is a chromophore energy acceptor which receives energy from A to achieve an excited state, and
- C is a biologically active agent covalently bonded to B, wherein the relaxation of the excited state of B causes heterolytic cleavage of the covalent bond of C, releasing C from B.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.