Patent · US Expired

Method of identifying compounds suitable for treatment and/or prophylaxis of obesity

US6946243B2 · kind B2 · utility

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4References

15Claims

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Assignee

Solvay Pharmaceuticals, GmbH · US

Inventors

Johannes Hebebrand · Marburg, DE
Jochen Antel · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Ulf Preuschoff · Laatzen, DE
Samuel David · Dorval, CA
Holger Sann · Hannover, DE
Michael Weske · Burgdorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 18, 2001
Grant date	Sep 20, 2005
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 4, 2022

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2800/044
WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A method for the discovery of compounds suitable for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of obesity, in which the ability of the test compounds to inhibit de novo lipogenesis in mammals and/or man is determined. The use of compounds which are capable of inhibiting de novo lipogenesis in mammals, and which are substantially free of effects directed towards the CNS, for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of obesity, as well as for the treatment and/or inhibition of obesity, are also described.

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