Use of equol for treating androgen mediated diseases

• US 8,153,684 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2009
• Issued: 04/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Children's Hospital & Medical Center, Colorado State University Research Foundation, Technology Transfer Office Brigham Young University
• Original Assignee: Children's Hospital & Medical Center, Colorado State University Research Foundation, Technology Transfer Office Brigham Young University
• Inventors: Lephart, Edwin Douglas, Lund, Trent D., Setchell, Kenneth David Reginald, Handa, Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): ZAREK, PAUL E
• Application Number:
  US12/572,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20100087519A1
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
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Abstract

Equol (7-hydroxy-3(4′hydroxyphenyl)-chroman), the major metabolite of the phytoestrogen daidzein, specifically binds and blocks the hormonal action of 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in vitro and in vivo. Equol can bind circulating free DHT and sequester it from the androgen receptor, thus altering growth and physiological hormone responses that are regulated by androgens. These data suggest a novel model to explain equol'"'"'s biological properties. The significance of equol'"'"'s ability to specifically bind and sequester DHT from the androgen receptor have important ramifications in health and disease and may indicate a broad and important usage for equol in the treatment and prevention of androgen-mediated pathologies. Thus, equol can specifically bind DHT and prevent DHT'"'"'s biological actions in physiological and pathophysiological processes.

Claims

1. A method of ameliorating benign prostatic hyperplasia in a subject, comprising administering a non-racemic mixture of equol, wherein the equol consists of more than 50 percent R-equol to the subject.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the equol is administered as an oral composition comprising at least 1 mg equol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the equol is administered as a topical composition comprising at least 0.1% equol.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the equol is administered in a food product.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the equol is administered in pharmaceutical.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the equol is administered in an over-the-counter medicament.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the administering further comprises administering one or more pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvants, carriers, or excipients.

2. A method of co-modulating androgen hormone actions and estrogen hormone action so as to ameliorate benign prostatic hyperplasia in a subject, comprising administering a non-racemic mixture of equol, wherein the equol consists of more than 50 percent R-equol to the subject.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the equol is administered as an oral composition comprising at least 1 mg equol.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein the equol is administered as a topical composition comprising at least 0.1% equol.

11. The method of claim 2, wherein the equol is administered in a food product.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein the equol is administered in a pharmaceutical.

13. The method of claim 2, wherein the equol is administered in an over-the-counter medicament.

14. The method of claim 2, wherein the administering further comprises administering one or more pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvants, carriers, or excipients.