Inventors:
Brij M. Moudgil - Gainesville FL, US
Manoj Varshney - Gainesville FL, US
Stephen R. Grobmyer - Gainesville FL, US
Assignee:
University of Florida Resarch Foundation, Inc. - Gainesville FL
International Classification:
A61K 49/00, A61K 31/765, A61K 31/20, A61K 31/201, A61K 31/23, A61K 31/231, A61K 36/47, A61K 36/889, A61K 36/899, A61K 31/341, A61K 31/08, A61K 31/355, A61K 31/7024, A61K 31/05, A61K 31/575, A61K 31/221, A61K 31/255, A61P 35/00
US Classification:
424 91, 424 7831, 514558, 514560, 514552, 424731, 424727, 424750, 514473, 424 7838, 514722, 514458, 514 23, 514731, 514182, 514551, 514517
Abstract:
A method for the treatment of cancer involves delivering a surface active agent to an organism, where the surface active agent selectively partitions to and kills cancer cells as opposed to healthy cells. The surface active agent can be an ionic or a non-ionic surfactant with a HLB of less than 29 or a mixture of surface active agents with a HLB of less than 40, where the hydrophobic portion is a lesser fraction of the surface active agent than the hydrophilic portion. A fluorescence method of detecting and locating cancer cells in an organism involves delivering a surface active agent, where the surface active agent includes a fluorescence moiety that upon selective partitioning of the surface active agent to the cancer cells and irradiation by a radiation source to excite the fluorescence moiety, a fluorescence emission is observed permitting the detection and location of the cancerous tissue by local volumes of relatively high intensity emission.