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Process for treating disease

  • US 20030073608A1
  • Filed: 04/10/2001
  • Published: 04/17/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A process for treating Alheimer'"'"'s disease, comprising the steps of administering to a human patient an antagonist of a neurotransmitter receptor which indirectly inhibits phosporylation of microtubule-associated protein-2, and thereafter administering to said patient and anticholinesterase agent, wherein:

  • (a) said antagonist of said neurotransmitter binds to a neurotransmitter receptor which phosphorylates said microtubule-associated protein-2 in limbic cells, (b) said antagonist of said neurotransmitter binds to a neurotransmitter receptor which phosphorylates microtuble-associated protein-2 in neocortical cells, and (c) said antagonist binds to said neurotransmitter receptor in said limbic cells at least 1.5 times as much as it binds to said neurotransmitter receptor in said neocortical cells.

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