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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (US);
The United States of America As Represented BY the Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (US);
J. Marc Simard, Baltimore, MD (US);
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (US);
The United States of America as Represented by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Methods and compositions are provided that are utilized for treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage or progressive hemorrhagic necrosis (PHN), particularly following spinal cord injury. In particular, the methods and compositions are inhibitors of a particular NCca-ATP channel and include, for example, inhibitors of SURI and/or inhibitors of TRPM4. Kits for treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage or progressive hemorrhagic necrosis (PHN), particularly following spinal cord injury, are also provided. The present invention also concerns treatment and/or prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage in infants, including premature infants utilizing one or more inhibitors of the channel is provided to the infant, for example to brain cells of the infant.