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Verteporfin

A benzoporphyrin-derived photosensitiser, discovered in the mid-1980s by the group of Julia Levy, a professor at the University of British Columbia, and approved in the United States in 2000 for photodynamic therapy of wet macular degeneration. This family brings together the active ingredient.

Did you know?It is activated by non-thermal red light at 689 nanometres: the laser aimed at the eye switches it on in the abnormal blood vessels where it accumulates, and the singlet oxygen produced closes them.

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VerteporfinActive ingredientVerteporfinCat. No. P-V033-001CAS 129497-78-5

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