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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1997
Angel K Markov, Jackson, MS (US);
Anthony W Fox, Rancho LaCosta, CA (US);
Paul J Marangos, Encinitas, CA (US);
Cypros Pharmaceutical Corp., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
Fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP) has been shown, in double-blinded controlled clinical trials on patients with sickle cell anemia, to substantially reduce the pain suffered by such patients during the recurrent ischemic crises that are caused by red blood cell sickling. Tests on patients who have been hospitalized for such crises demonstrated that when they received an intravenous injection of FDP, they reported substantially lower pain levels during their hospital stays than control groups that received identical treatment without any FDP. Apparently, FDP has never previously been used or even tested in human clinical trials, to treat sickle cell anemia. In addition, FDP has never previously been reported to have any analgesic (pain-reducing) activity.