Dr Dinah Parums Patents

Dr Dinah Parums. The Localisation of PDE-5 to smooth muscle cells but not endothelium in coronary arteries.

Patents:

1) Inventors: Parums; Dinah (Cambridge, GB); Phillips; Stephen Charles (Kent, GB); Ridden; John (Kent, GB)

Assignee: Pfizer Inc. (New York, NY); Application No. 894743; Filed: June 28, 2001

Abstract The present invention relates to an isolated target sequence. The target sequence is a splice variant of PDE5 called a PDE5a1, a component of which is presented as SEQ ID No 1. The identified target sequence of the present invention may be used to as a target to identify agents (such as modulators) useful in the prevention and/or treatment of a disease associated with scarring and/or fibrosis or to selectively identify smooth muscle cells and myofibroblasts and myoepithelial cells in samples of normal and diseased tissue from individuals.

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2) Inventors: Davies, Michael John; Huggins, Jonathan Paul; Parums, Dinah Velta.

Assignee:Pfizer Inc. (Groton, CT).Application No. 20050148585 (USPTO); Filed: 7^th July, 2002.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of cyclic guanosine 3′,5′-monophosphate type five (cGMP PDE5) inhibitors (hereinafter PDE5 inhibitors), including in particular the compound sildenafil, for the treatment of chronic wounds of a non-diabetic origin including in particular chronic venous ulcers, chronic decubitus (pressure sores) and arterial ulcers; and acute wounds.

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