Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Designated organic active ingredient containing – Radical -xh acid – or anhydride – acid halide or salt thereof...
Patent
1996-05-08
1999-04-20
Huang, Evelyn
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Designated organic active ingredient containing
Radical -xh acid, or anhydride, acid halide or salt thereof...
514410, 514185, A61K 31195, A61K 3140
Patent
active
058957863
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a method for treating a viral infection in a subject. The method comprises administering to the subject an amount of 5-aminolevulinic acid and an iron-chelating agent to cause virus-infected cells to accumulate protoporphyrin in amounts such that upon application of a sufficient dose of red light, the virus-infected, protoporphyrin-accumulated cells will be destroyed; and applying a sufficient dose of red light to the virus-infected, protoporphyrin-accumulated cells to destroy the virus-infected, protoporphyrin-accumulated cells.
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Lofgren LA et al. Br. J. Cancer, 72, 857-864, 1995.
Iinuma S et al. Br. J. Cancer, 70, 21-28, 1994.
Ben-Hur Ehud
Malik Zvi
Huang Evelyn
New York Blood Center Inc.
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