Claims for Patent: 6,710,066
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Summary for Patent: 6,710,066
Title: | Photochemotherapeutic method using 5-aminolevulinic acid and other precursors of endogenous porphyrins |
Abstract: | Methods of detecting and treating rapidly growing exogenous cells, such as Protista, or parasites, that preferentially accumulate a photoactivatable porphyrin in which 5-aminolevulinic acid or precursor thereof is administered to the patient, or contacted to the exogenous cells, in an amount sufficient to induce synthesis fluorescence and/or photosensitizing concentrations of a protoporphyrin IX in the exogenous cells, followed by exposure of the exogenous cells to light of photoactivating wavelengths. |
Inventor(s): | Kennedy; James C. (Kingston, CA), Pottier; Roy H. (Kingston, CA) |
Assignee: | Queen's University at Kingston (Kingston, CA) |
Application Number: | 09/816,329 |
Patent Claims: |
1. A method for treating in a human patient a non-malignant hyperproliferative skin lesion that preferentially accumulates a photoactivatable porphyrin, comprising
administering to said human patient in need thereof an effective amount of a precursor of protoporphyrin IX thereby accumulating therapeutic levels of said protoporphyrin IX, and thereafter exposing said skin lesion to light capable of photoactivating
said protoporphyrin IX.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said precursor of protoporphyrin IX is administered topically. 3. A method for detecting in a human patient a non-malignant, hyperproliferative skin lesion that preferentially accumulates a photoactivatable porphyrin, comprising administering to said human patient in need thereof an effective amount of a precursor of protoporphyrin IX thereby accumulating detectable levels of said protoporphyrin IX, and thereafter exposing said skin lesion to light capable of photoactivating said protoporphyrin IX. 4. The method of claim 3 wherein said precursor of protoporphyrin IX is administered topically. 5. The method of claim 1 wherein said precursor is 5-aminolevulinic acid. 6. The method of claim 3 wherein said precursor is 5-aminolevulinic acid. 7. A method of treating a non-malignant, hyperproliferative skin lesion in a human patient in which protoporphyrin IX is produced from 5-aminolevulinic acid, comprising exposing said skin lesion in said human patient to a wavelength of light within the photoactivating spectrum of protoporphyrin IX. 8. A method of treating a non-malignant, hyperproliferative skin lesion in a human patient in which protoporphyrin IX is produced from 5-aminolevulinic acid, comprising exposing said skin lesion in said human patient to a wavelength of light within the photoactivating spectrum of protoporphyrin IX, wherein said light is generated using an artificial light source. 9. A method according to claim 7, wherein said light is only within the absorption spectrum of protoporphyrin IX. 10. A method according to claim 7, wherein said wavelength of light is limited to the group of wavelengths consisting of 350 to 700 nanometers. 11. A method according to claim 7, wherein the photoactivating light is limited to the red and blue regions of the spectrum. 12. A method of treating a non-malignant, hyperproliferative skin lesion, comprising (a) administering to a human patient a compound that induces accumulation of protoporphyrin IX in said skin lesion and then (b) exposing said skin lesion to a wavelength of light within the photoactivating spectrum of protoporphyrin IX. 13. A method according to claim 12, wherein said wavelength of light is generated using an artificial light source. 14. A method according to claim 12, wherein said wavelength of light is limited to the group of wavelengths consisting of 350 to 700 nanometers. 15. A method according to claim 12, wherein the photoactivating light is limited to the red and blue regions of the spectrum. |
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