Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Use of ghrelin or functional ghrelin receptor agonists to prevent and treat stress-sensitive psychiatric illness
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Application No.: US15052110Application Date: 2016-02-24
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Publication No.: US10317418B2Publication Date: 2019-06-11
- Inventor: Ki Ann Goosens
- Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: A01N57/00
- IPC: A01N57/00 ; A61K31/66 ; A61K39/00 ; C12N15/113 ; G01N33/74 ; A61K31/165 ; A61K31/395 ; A61K31/40 ; A61K31/404 ; A61K31/415 ; A61K31/4439 ; A61K31/4545 ; A61K31/7076 ; A61K38/25
Abstract:
The invention relates to methods of treating stress-sensitive psychiatric diseases arising from trauma in a subject by enhancing ghrelin signaling in the BLA of the subject. The invention also relates to methods of reversing ghrelin resistance.
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