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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2013
Tdeltas Limited, Thame, Oxfordshire, GB;
Government of the Usa, As Represented BY the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services, Rockville, MD (US);
Kieran Clarke, Oxford, GB;
Richard Lewis Veech, Rockville, MD (US);
TDELTAS LIMITED, Thame, GB;
GOVERNMENT OF THE USA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A method of protecting animal tissue particularly skin, from damage caused by radiation exposure, by contacting the tissue with a ketone ester, a method of protecting skin, reducing the deterioration of skin or maintaining or improving the properties of skin by applying topically to the skin a ketone body comprising (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate moieties is disclosed. A ketone body comprising (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate moieties, especially enantiomerically enriched R-1,3-hydroxybutyl-(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate, for such uses is also provided.