Targeted diagnostic/therapeutic agents having more than one different vectors

US6331289A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• NYCOMED IMAGING AS · NO

Inventors

• Jo Klaveness · Oslo, NO
• Pal Rongved · Oslo, NO
• Anders H.o slashed.gset · Oslo, NO
• Helge Tolleshaug · Oslo, NO
• Alan Cuthbertson · San Jose, US
• Lars Hoff · Oslo, NO
• Klaus Bryn · Oslo, NO
• Halldis Hellebust · Oslo, NO
• Magne Solbakken · Oslo, NO

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 28, 1997
• Grant date: Dec 18, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/93
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

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.