Methods for treating epilepsy
AssigneePTC Therapeutics, Inc.
InventorsEllen Welch, Yuki Tomizawa, Priya Vazirani
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Abstract
Provided herein are methods of treating, preventing, ameliorating or managing a nonsense mutation mediated epileptic disease, comprising administering a 1,2,4-oxadiazole benzoic acid to a patient having a nonsense mutation mediated epileptic disease. In particular, provided herein are methods of treating, preventing, ameliorating or managing a CDKL5 and/or SCN1A (Dravet syndrome) nonsense mutation mediated epileptic disease.
Claims8
A method for treating, ameliorating or managing a nonsense mutation mediated epileptic disease associated with a SCN1A nonsense mutation, comprising administering an effective amount of 3-[5-(2-fluoro-phenyl)-[1,2,4]oxadiazol-3-yl]benzoic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a patient having the nonsense mutation mediated epileptic disease.
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