The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Bloodcenter Research Foundation

Nattopharma As

Katarzyna Maresz

Thomas P Stossel

Stefan Chlopicki

Po-Shun Lee

Anna Bar

Bonnie Dittel

A method for rapidly improving cardiovascular function, reducing arterial stiffness and reversing calcification of a blood vessel in a mammal comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of vitamin K for a period of less than 6 months. Also a method for increasing endothelial nitric oxide production in mammals comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of vitamin K for a period of less than 6 months. The vitamin K can be administered together with additional substances such as vitamin D.

Rapidly improving vascular conditions by administering vitamin K

The invention relates to the use of gelsolin to treat neurologic diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis) and to the use of gelsolin to diagnose, monitor, and evaluate therapies of neurologic diseases.

Use of gelsolin to treat multiple sclerosis and to diagnose neurologic disease (stossel)

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Cracow, Poland

Katarzyna Maresz