Somnogenic compositions and method of use

US4698330A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• President and Fellows of Harvard College · US

Inventors

• James M. Krueger · Germantown, US
• John R. Pappenheimer · Cambridge, US
• Manfred L. Karnovsky · Cambridge, US
• Pierre Lefrancier · Les Ulis, FR
• Jean Choay · Paris, FR
• Louis Chedid · Paris, FR
• Edgar Lederer · Sceaux, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 27, 1983
• Grant date: Oct 6, 1987
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61K38/14
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Biological compositions which induce sleep of the slow-wave type which comprise biological carriers and sleep-inducing muramyl peptides such as acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine and derivatives thereof and methods of using such compositions.