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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2000
Suzy Charbit, Creteil, FR;
Francois Schutze, St-Nom-La-Breteche, FR;
Alain Taccoen, Le Chesnay, FR;
Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Saint-Lambert, FR;
Diego Provvedini, Bougival, FR;
Laboratoires Negma, Magny-les-Hameaux, FR;
Abstract
A method of treating osteoarthritis, which is effective not only at targeting the symptoms of the disease, but also in interrupting, preventing, and controlling cartilage destruction, to thereby favorably alter the course of the disease, comprising the administration of an effective amount of rhein or a rhein derivative, preferably diacerein, either alone or in combination with at least one member selected from the group consisting of analgesics, antipyretics, cortico-steroids, anti-inflammatory agents, cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors, and inflammatory cytokine inhibitors, to a subject in need of such treatment.