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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vincent P Pigiet, Winchester, MA (US);
Abraham Spector, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 17 ; 514 18 ; 514912 ; 514954 ;
Abstract
The subject invention concerns a process for the prevention and reversal of cataracts. Specifically, the invention comprises the treatment of the eye lens with an effective cataract inhibiting amount of thioredoxin or thioredoxin-derived, or thioredoxin-like, dithiol peptide, alone, or in combination with a thioredoxin reductase regenerating system. The thioredoxin compound can be administered topically to a patient in need of such treatment on a daily basis over an extended period of time via known delivery techniques such as eye drops and ocular inserts.