Use of fullerenes in diagnostic and/or therapeutic agents

US5688486A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nycomed Salutar, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Alan D. Watson · Wayne, US
• Jo Klaveness · Oslo, NO
• Gene Jamieson · Ramona, US
• Jere D. Fellmann · Livermore, US
• Nils B. Vogt · Oslo, NO

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 1994
• Grant date: Nov 18, 1997
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/927
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Compounds including tight molecular meshes, preferably curved in one or two directions, such as fullerenes and met-cars, can be used as carriers for diagnostic or therapeutic agents, especially diagnostic contrast agents.