US 7,560,257 B2
Diagnostic methods for age related macular degeneration
Joe G. Hollyfield, Shaker Heights, Ohio (US); Robert G. Salomon, Mayfield Village, Ohio (US); John W. Crabb, Chagrin Falls, Ohio (US); and Xiaorong Gu, Lyndhurst, Ohio (US)
Assigned to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio (US); and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (US)
Filed on Mar. 06, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/43,201.
Application 12/043201 is a division of application No. 11/523954, filed on Sep. 20, 2006, granted, now 7,341,839.
Application 11/523954 is a division of application No. 10/135196, filed on Apr. 30, 2002, granted, now 7,172,874.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/287543, filed on Apr. 30, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2008/0160505 A1, Jul. 03, 2008
Int. Cl. C12P 7/64 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 435—134  [435/7.1; 514/141] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An isolated 2-(ω-carboxyethyl) pyrrole (CEP) adduct comprising CEP conjugated to a carrier with a primary amino group.