Proteosys Ag

Vukic Soskic

André Schrattenholz

The present invention relates to new pharmaceutical uses of 4-azasteroid compounds, in particular of Finasteride/Dutasteride/Dutasteride and Dutasteride, particularly preferred of Finasteride/Dutasteride/Dutasteride, and its pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives, and combinations comprising said compounds. The invention also features generally the use of a modulator compound of neuroprotective conditions via beta subunits of shaker-type voltage-gated potassium channels and/or via members of solute carriers family 25, in particular Aralar (member 12) and adenine-nucleotide translocators 1 & 2 (member 4 & 5) and/or via a 4-nitrophenylphosphatase domain and non-neuronal SNAP25-like protein homolog 1 (NIPSNAP 1) as a neuroprotective medicament, particularly as a medicament for the prevention and/or treatment of neurological diseases such as dementia, Parkinson, Alzheimer, schizophrenia or epilepsy. The demonstrated inhibition of the MPTP appears to constitute a novel principle applicable to all pathological conditions which have underlying excitotoxic/mitochondrial mechanisms, like: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, depression, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, pain, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, traumatic brain and spinal chord injury, stroke and other ischemic conditions in the brain.

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Vukic Soskic