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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Raphael C Lee, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424646 ; 514171 ; 514174 ; 514211 ; 5142258 ; 514356 ; 514648 ; 514654 ;
Abstract
This invention pertains to a composition for controlling wound scar production containing a calcium antagonist and a protein synthesis inhibitor. The method can be used to minimize wound scars, such as hypertrophic wound healing disorders keloids and burn scar contractures in humans or other mammals, particularly those individually prone to excesssive scarring Calcium antagonist treatment can also be used to control diseases associated with excessive scarring. such as cirrhosis of the liver, constructive pericarditis Dupuytren's disease of the hand, plantar fibrosis of the foot, and various other fibromatoses.