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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2012
Applicant:
Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Yeou-Ping Tsao, Taipei, TW;
Tsung-Chuan Ho, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/00 (2006.01); C07K 14/47 (2006.01); C07K 14/81 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 14/47 (2013.01); C07K 14/811 (2013.01); A61K 38/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for treating alopecia and/or hair depigmentation includes administering to a subject in need of such treatments a synthetic peptide, which has an amino acid sequence that has 20-44 amino acid residues and includes at least 20 consecutive residues that has at least 90% amino acid sequence identity to residues 16-35 of SEQ ID NO: 10. Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions containing the synthetic peptide; and uses thereof. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, the synthetic peptide is useful in treating alopecia and/or hair depigmentation in a subject.