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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2019
Texas Tech University System, Lubbock, TX (US);
Susan E. Bergeson, Lubbock, TX (US);
Ted W. Reid, Lubbock, TX (US);
Mayank Shashtri, Lubbock, TX (US);
Peter Syapin, Camarillo, CA (US);
Phat Tran, Lubbock, TX (US);
Texas Tech University System, Lubbock, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes novel molecules and methods for using the same to treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), tobacco use, pain, or proinflammatory disorders comprising: identifying a subject in need of treatment for at least one of AUD, SUD, pain, or a proinflammatory disorder; and providing the subject with an effective amount of a modified minocycline to ameliorate or eliminate the AUD, SUD, pain, or proinflammatory disorder and that has reduced, or no, antimicrobial activity, wherein the modified tetracycline has a formula, e.g., or the modified doxycycline, minocycline, and tigecycline and their tautomerized structures, where the R-groups shown in the minocycline example above could be different combination of halogen, acetyl ester, methyl ester, and diacetal.