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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2013
Trustees of Tufts College, Boston, MA (US);
New England Medical Center Hospitals, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
1149336 Ontario, Inc., Toronto, CA;
William W. Bachovchin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Andrew G. Plaut, Lexington, MA (US);
Daniel J. Drucker, Toronto, CA;
1149336 Ontario, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CA;
New England Medical Center Hospitals. Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Trustees of Tufts College, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides methods for modification and regulation of glucose metabolism by administering to an animal a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of dipeptidylpeptidase IV (DPIV) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, where the inhibitor has a Ki for inhibition of DPIV of 10 nM or less; and the inhibitor is administered in an amount sufficient to increase the plasma half-life of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) but not sufficient to suppress the immune system of the animal.