Composition and methods for treating Alzheimer's disease and other amyloidoses
US7754250B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 19, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jul 13, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 19, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61P43/00
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of treating an amyloid disease in a patient or inhibiting the formation, deposition, accumulation, or persistence, of amyloid fibrils, amylin fibrils, or islet amyloid fibrils, and/or dissolving or disrupting pre-formed or pre-deposited amyloid fibrils in type II diabetes in a mammalian subject. In the method a therapeutically effective amount of plant matter form the genus Uncaria, species Tomentosa is administered, preferably from the inner bark or root tissue of Uncaria Tomentosa.
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