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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2015
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Circuit Therapeutics, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Karl A. Deisseroth, Stanford, CA (US);
Elizabeth R. Aden, Berkeley, CA (US);
Viviana Gradinaru, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Scott L. Delp, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Circuit Therapeutics, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided herein are methods for the treatment of bladder dysfunction, including detrusor hyperreflexia and detrusor external sphincter dyssynergia, fecal incontinence, and/or sexual dysfunction in an individual via the use of stably expressed light-responsive opsin proteins capable of selective hyperpolarization or depolarization of the neural cells that innervate the muscles responsible for physiologic functioning of urinary bladder, external urinary sphincter, external anal sphincter, and the male and female genitalia.