Use of vanadium compounds to accelerate bone healing
AssigneeUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
InventorsSheldon Suton Lin, David Naisby Paglia, James Patrick O'Connor, Eric Breitbart, Joseph Benevenia
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Abstract
This invention provides a method of promoting bone healing by locally administering a vanadium-based insulin mimetic agent to a patient in need thereof. The invention also provides a new use of insulin-mimetic vanadium compounds for manufacture of medicaments for accelerating bone-healing processes. In addition, the invention also encompasses a bone injury treatment kit suitable for localized administration of insulin-mimetic vanadium compounds or compositions thereof to a patient in need of such treatment.
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A method of treating a bone condition in a patient in need thereof, comprising locally administering to said patient a therapeutically effective amount of an insulin-mimetic vanadium compound.
A method of promoting hone healing, comprising locally administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising an insulin-mimetic vanadium compound.
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A bone injury treatment kit comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an insulin-mimetic vanadium compound formulated for localized administration of said vanadium compound to a patient in need thereof.
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