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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:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Leland Shapiro, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
Trustees of University of Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/170 ; A61K 3/135 ; A61K 3/140 ; A61K 3/116 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/170 ; A61K 3/135 ; A61K 3/140 ; A61K 3/116 ;
Abstract
A novel method of treating and preventing diseases is provided. In particular, compositions and methods of blocking diseases associated with aberrant levels of nitric oxide and facilitated by a serine proteolytic (SP) activity are disclosed, which consist of administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound having a serine protease inhibitory activity. Among effective compounds are &agr; -antitrypsin and synthetic drugs mimicking some or all of the actions of &agr; -antitrypsin.