Method of treating inflammation with inositol triphosphate

• US 5,019,566 A
• Filed: 03/28/1988
• Issued: 05/28/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Perstorp AB
• Original Assignee: Perstorp AB
• Inventors: Siren, Matti
• Primary Examiner(s): Rose, Shep K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Criares, Theodore J.
• Application Number:
  US07/173,985
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• Field of Search: 514/734, 514/886, 514/738, 514/573, 514/103
• US Class Current: 514/103
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 2300/00 Mixtures or combinations of active ingredients, wherein at least one active ingredient is fully defined in groups A61K31/00 - A61K41/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/19 Carboxylic acids, e.g. valproic acid salicylic acid A61K31/60
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/20 having a carboxyl group bound to a chain of seven or more carbon atoms, e.g. stearic, palmitic, arachidic acids
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/355 Tocopherols, e.g. vitamin E
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/375 Ascorbic acid, i.e. vitamin C; Salts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/66 Phosphorus compounds
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 33/04 Sulfur, selenium or tellurium; Compounds thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 39/02 Antidotes

Abstract

A method of reducing the negative effect of cadmium or aluminum ion or free-radicals in body tissues and a method of preventing or alleviating certain diseases and conditions by administering to a human or an animal a pharmaceutical composition comprising an amount of at least one specific isomer of inositol triphosphate sufficient to obtain said prevention or alleviation.

Claims

1. A method of treating an inflammatory condition in a human or an animal comprising administering to a human or an animal in need thereof pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one isomer of an inositol triphosphate.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein said inflammatory condition is arthritis.