Methods for promoting wound healing and treating transplant-associated vasculopathy
AssigneeUniversity of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
InventorsTimothy R. Billiar, Edith Tzeng, Larry L. Shears, II, David A. Geller, Howard David James Edington
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of promoting the closure of a wound in a patient. This method involves transferring exogenous iNOS to the region of the wound whereby a product of iNOS is produced in the region of the wound to promote the closure of the wound.
Claims8
A method of promoting the closure of a wound in a patient which comprises transferring exogenous iNOS to the region of said wound.
The method of claim 12 wherein said wound is an external wound and wherein exogenous BH.sub.4 is transferred to the region of said wound by topical administration of BH.sub.4 to the region of the wound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.