Methods of identifying compounds for regulating muscle mass or function using vasoactive intestinal peptide receptors
Patent Number: 6750194
Date of First Priority Issue: Monday October 23rd, 2000
Date Issued: Tuesday June 15th, 2004
Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati, OH)
Inventors: Isfort, Robert Joseph (Fairfield, OH); Sheldon, Russell James (Fairfield, OH)
From Class: Expansion
Comments: No comments
This patent covers expansion of muscle mass through the use of vasoactive intestinal peptide receptors (VPAC)agonists.
The activity of such agonists on stem cells are only beginning to be identified, and I am sure this area is ripe for expansion...for example, what do such agonists do on neural stem cells?
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