PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY FOR VASCULAR DISEASES

摘要

Various diagnostics with the application of photodynamic diagnosis/therapy (photodynamic therapy: PDT) wherein use is made of highly selective uptake of an iminochlorinaspartic acid derivative or its pharmacologically acceptable salt in neovessels and selective uptake thereof in cancer cells. More specifically, remedies for rheumatism, remedies for inflammatory keratosis, agents for confirming the location of a sentinel lymph node and diagnostics for cancer metastasis which contain as the active ingredient an iminochlorinaspartic acid derivative represented by the following formula (I) or its pharmacologically acceptable salt: (I) wherein Asp represents aspartate.