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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert S Danziger, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514185 ; 540145 ;
Abstract
A method to improve the contractile function of the heart in myocarditis and other forms of heart failure is disclosed. The method consists essentially of administering a tetrapyrrole or metallotetrapyrrole which inhibits or reduces the endogenous guanylyl cyclase activity in cardiac myocyte of the patient.