Abstract: This invention relates to the use of conjugates of cyanine dyes with an angiogenesis specific binding component preferably with an EB-D fibronectin specific binding component for the diagnosis of micrometastasis and small proliferative lesions, in particular primary tumors, precancerosis, dysplasia, metaplasia, inflammatory lesions, e.g. psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and/or rheumatoid arthritis, endometriotic lesions, and ocular diseases associated with angiogenesis.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds for tumor diagnosis that consist of conjugates of dyes with short-chain peptides, which are derived from vaso-active intestinal peptide, somatostatin or neurotensin, the use of these compounds as optical diagnostic agents, and diagnostic agents that contain these compounds.

Abstract: A near infrared fluorescent contrast agent which is excellent in permeability in a living tissue and enables specific imaging of tumor and/or blood vessel, comprising a compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R7, and R8 represent a C1-C10 alkyl group or the like; R3, R4, R5, R6, R9, R10, R11, and R12 represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group, an aryl group or the like; X1 and X2 represent a C1-C15 alkyl group or an aryl group and X1 and X2 in total have 0 to 4 carboxyl groups; m1, m2, and m3 represents 0 or 1; L1 to L7 independently represent a methine group; M represents a hydrogen atom, a metal, or a quaternary ammonium salt; and n represents an integer of 1 to 7 necessary for neutralizing charge.

Abstract: This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the NIR range, to new dyes and pharmaceuticals containing such dyes.

Abstract: This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the NIR range, to new dyes and pharmaceuticals containing such dyes.

Abstract: This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the NIR range, to new dyes and pharmaceuticals containing such dyes.

Abstract: This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the NIR range, to new dyes and pharmaceuticals containing such dyes.

Abstract: This invention relates to emitter-binding peptides that produce a change in the spectral emission properties of the emitter in the case of an interaction of its antigen-binding pocket with the emitter. The emitter-binding peptides of the invention are in particular components of antibodies and antibody fragments.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device and a process for direct quantitative in vitro determination of a substance that is contained in a sample. The device according to the invention comprises agents, immobilized on a surface, for detecting substances, a free substance-emitter conjugate, and agents, immobilized on a surface, for detecting the emitter. The emitter of the device that is used comprises a portion that reacts with a change in the emission properties in an interaction with the agent for detecting the emitter. By means of the device according to the invention, substances that are selected from antigens, such as proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, oligonucleotides, blood components, serum components, lipids, pharmaceutical agents and compounds of low molecular weight or, in another design, substance-detecting agents, such as, for example, antibodies or fragments thereof, can be determined directly quantitatively, in, e.g., whole-blood samples.

Abstract: This invention relates to new fluorescence dyes from the class of cyanine dyes, especially indotricarbocyanines with an absorption and fluorescence maximum in the spectral range of 700 to 900 nm, a thiol-specific reactive group, and three, preferably four, sulfonate groups, to an increase of water solubility as well as the production of dyes. This invention also relates to the conjugates of these dyes with biomolecules and uses thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds for tumor diagnosis that consist of conjugates of dyes with short-chain peptides, which are derived from vaso-active intestinal peptide, somatostatin or neurotensin, the use of these compounds as optical dignostic agents, and diagnostic agents that contain these compounds.

Abstract: This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the NIR range, to new dyes and pharmaceuticals containing such dyes.

Abstract: Abstract This invention describes galenical formulations that contain perfluoroalkyl-containing dye molecules and other perfluoroalkyl-containing substances. The new formulations are suitable as, i.a., contrast media for near-infrared diagnosis.

Abstract: The invention relates to acid-labile and enzymatically divisible compounds for in-vivo and in-vitro diagnosis by means of near infrared radiation (NIR-radiation), the use of said compounds as optic diagnostic and therapeutic agents, and the diagnostic agents containing said compounds.

Abstract: This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the NIR range, to new dyes and pharmaceuticals containing such dyes.

Abstract: This invention describes galenical formulations that contain perfluoroalkyl-containing dye molecules and other perfluoroalkyl-containing substances. The new formulations are suitable as, i.a., contrast media for near-infrared diagnosis.

Abstract: This invention relates to colloidal systems charged with polymethine dyes and having suitable photophysical and pharmacological properties, their use as a contrast medium in fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the near infrared spectral range, as well as methods for their production.

Abstract: This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the NIR range, to new dyes and pharmaceuticals containing such dyes.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I): Fm(—A1)(—Bn)(—Wo) wherein F is a colorant-signal molecule with a maximum absorption value ranging from 600-1200 nm; A is a &bgr;-amyloid plaque binding biomolecule; B is a &bgr;-amyloid plaque binding colorant; and W is a &bgr;-amyloid plaque binding hydrophilic low-molecular structural element. The invention also describes the use of these compounds in in vivo an din vitro diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease by means of near infra-red radiation (NIR radiation) as a constrasting agent in fluoresecence and transillumination diagnosis in the NIR range. Diagnostic agents containing said componenets are also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to colloidal systems charged with polymethine dyes and having suitable photophysical and pharmacological properties, their use as a contrast medium in fluorescence and transillumination diagnostics in the near infrared spectral range, as well as methods for their production.