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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2001
Vladimir Patchev, Jena, DE;
Youriy Mitev, Jena, DE;
Siegmund Wolf, Jena, DE;
Gernot Langer, Berlin, DE;
Vladimir Patchev, Jena, DE;
Youriy Mitev, Jena, DE;
Siegmund Wolf, Jena, DE;
Gernot Langer, Berlin, DE;
Schering AG, Berlin, DE;
Abstract
A method for in vitro screening a group of test substances for a ligand using two assay systems, i.e. a cellular or tissue assay system and an enzymatic assay system, is described. First, those test substances are selected which have transcriptional ER-mediated activity measured by an ER-driven reporter gene in the cellular or tissue assay system with an EC(half-maximally effective ligand concentration) lower than or equal to 10 nmol/l. Then in an enzymatic assay system the selected test substances having the required transcriptional ER-mediated activity are tested by measuring a physical-chemical interaction (recruitment) of SRC-1 and the ER in the presence of the test substances. The selected ligand activates the ER and induces interaction with the co-present SRC-1 with an Ehigher than or equal to 100 nmol/l. The ligands found by the inventive screening method are useful for treatment and prevention of neuro-degeneration in the cerebral cortex, especially of age-related cognitive disorders, affective disorders, Alzheimer's diseases and cerebral ischemia/stroke.