American Home Products Corporation

Laurel M Adams

Thomas Joseph Caggiano

Surendra N Sehgal

Barry M Weichman

Linda M Warner

Robert J Sturm

William L Baeder

This invention provides a method of prophylactically preventing the onset, preventing the development, and arresting the progression of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in a mammal by administering an effective amount of rapamycin either alone or in combination with insulin.

Method of treating diabetes

This invention provides a method of preventing or reversing pulmonary inflammation in a mammal by administering an effective amount of rapamycin orally, parenterally, intranasally, or intrabronchially. As such, rapamycin is useful in providing the symptomatic relief of diseases in which pulmonary inflammation is a component such as, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, acute respiratory distress syndrome, bronchitis, and the like.

Method of treating pulmonary inflammation

This invention provides a method of treating systemic lupus erythematosus in a mammal in need thereof which comprises administering an effective amount of rapamycin orally, parenterally, intranasally, intrabronchially, or rectally.

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Durham, NC, United States of America

Laurel M Adams