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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2017
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (US);
Irving H. Zucker, Omaha, NE (US);
Hanjun Wang, Omaha, NE (US);
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a method for administration of a formulation of resiniferatoxin (RTX) to provide cardiac sympathetic afferent denervation when applied in an amount and concentration sufficient to chemically denervate vanilloid 1 receptor (TRPV1)-expressing CSAR (cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex) afferents. There is further disclosed a method for treating heart failure or hypertension and its related indications selected from the group consisting of increased sympatho-excitation, cardiac hypertrophy, increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP), lung edema, and combinations thereof, comprising administering an effective amount of RTX directly to a tissue site selected from the group consisting of epicardium, a T1-T4 dorsal root ganglion and intrathecally to the T1-T4 region of the spinal column.