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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2004
Margaret Clagett-dame, Madison, WI (US);
Hector F. Deluca, Deerfield, WI (US);
Jamie M. Ahrens, Mt. Horeb, WI (US);
James M. Ntambi, Madison, WI (US);
Brian Thomson, Madison, WI (US);
Margaret Clagett-Dame, Madison, WI (US);
Hector F. DeLuca, Deerfield, WI (US);
Jamie M. Ahrens, Mt. Horeb, WI (US);
James M. Ntambi, Madison, WI (US);
Brian Thomson, Madison, WI (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
Methods for treating and preventing obesity, inhibiting adipocyte differentiation, inhibiting increased SCD-1 gene transcription, and/or reducing body fat in a subject include administering at least one analog of 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin Dor 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin Dor a pharmaceutical composition that includes such an analog to a subject in need thereof. The analog may be a 19-nor vitamin D analog such as a compound of formula IA, a compound of formula IB, or a mixture thereof where the variables R, R, and Rhave the values described herein.