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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2015
Yale University, New Haven, CT (US);
Wajahat Mehal, Guilford, CT (US);
Xinshou Ouyang, West Hartford, CT (US);
Yale University, New Haven, CT (US);
Abstract
The invention includes a method of preventing or treating a toxic liver disease or disorder, such as but not limited to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), liver injury associated with or caused by alcohol consumption in a mammal afflicted with NASH, alcoholic hepatitis, drug induced liver injury, primary sclerosing cholangitis, viral hepatitis, liver fibrosis, liver cirrhosis, and other toxic liver conditions, in a subject, such as a mammal. The invention also includes a method of promoting weight loss in a subject, such as a mammal. The invention comprises administering to the subject a therapeutically effective dose of at least one cardiac glycoside or a solvate, salt, prodrug or derivative thereof.