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Will go get their SEC filings and find out more about them
<br>Still reading but it fits... weak estrogens have
been useful beyond the traditional hormone function. Example-
Estriol It has weak estrogenic, immunomodulatory as well
as antioxidant properties.
<p>@MitoKor.com
<p>Compounds
<p> MitoKor's drug development efforts include estrogen and novel,
non-feminizing,
<br> polycyclic phenolic estrogen analogs, that protect cells and
mitochondria under
<br> the pathological conditions occurring during a stroke or myocardial
infarction.
<br> MitoKor has entered into a strategic alliance with Wyeth Corporation
related to the
<br> development of estrogens and estrogen-like compounds for treatment
of
<br> Alzheimer's disease. Wyeth is funding a Phase III clinical trial
evaluating the use of
<br> estrogens in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease
in
<br> post-menopausal women. This trial is part of the Women's Health
Initiative Study,
<br> and has enrolled over 7,500 women. MitoKor has also successfully
completed a
<br>Phase I clinical trial of a non-feminizing estrogen analog.
<br>
<p>Damien Broderick wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>From: "Brett Paatsch" <bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au>
<br>Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 8:02 AM
<br>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] BIO: Stem Cell Genes
<p>[Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:]
<br>> > ### Oh, the technology is patented already (as a preliminary
<br>> > patent)
<p>> "Preliminary patent" seems like slightly confused lay-speak to me.
<br>> I think the process that would be used in the circumstance you've
<br>> 'outlined' would have been a provisional application for patent.
<p>My JD legal adviser informs me that `provisional patent' is indeed what
<br>Rafal would be writing about.
<p>Meanwhile, here's an interesting patent that was granted more than two
and
<br>half years ago. It'll fix hangnails, cancer, migrims, Alzheimers, and
a
<br>gallon or two should have your car running like new. :)
<p><a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1">http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1</a>
<br>&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,268,398.WKU.&OS=PN/6,268,398&RS=P
<br>N/6,268,398
<p>Compounds and methods for treating mitochondria-associated diseases
<p>Abstract
<br>Compounds, compositions and methods are disclosed for treating
<br>mitochondria-associated diseases, such as cancer, psoriasis, stroke,
<br>Alzheimer's Disease and diabetes. The compounds of this invention have
<br>structure (I) below, including stereoisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically
<br>acceptable salts thereof, wherein Ar and L are as defined herein. The
<br>methods of this invention are directed to treating a mitochondria-associated
<br>disease by administering to a warm-blooded animal in need thereof an
<br>effective amount of a compound of structure (I), typically in the form
of a
<br>pharmaceutical composition. ##STR1##
<p>.......
<br>a sample from the lengthy text:
<p>< Oxidatively stressed mitochondria may release a pre-formed soluble
factor
<br>that can induce chromosomal condensation, an event preceding apoptosis
<br>(Marchetti et al., Cancer Res. 56:2033-38, 1996). In addition, members
of
<br>the Bcl-2 family of anti-apoptosis gene products are located within
the
<br>outer mitochondrial membrane (Monaghan et al., J. Histochem. Cytochem.
<br>40:1819-25, 1992) and these proteins appear to protect membranes from
<br>oxidative stress (Korsmeyer et al, Biochim. Biophys. Act. 1271:63,
1995).
<br>Localization of Bcl-2 to this membrane appears to be indispensable
for
<br>modulation of apoptosis (Nguyen et al., J. Biol. Chem. 269:16521-24,
1994).
<br>Thus, changes in mitochondrial physiology may be important mediators
of
<br>apoptosis. To the extent that apoptotic cell death is a prominent feature
of
<br>neuronal loss in AD. mitochondrial dysfunction may be critical to the
<br>progression of this disease and may also be a contributing factor in
other
<br>mitochondria associated diseases.
<p>Focal defects in energy metabolism in the mitochondria, with accompanying
<br>increases in oxidative stress, may be associated with AD. > etc
etc
<p>Damien Broderick
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