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US 6,552,089 B1Granted
Method of treating or preventing alopecia
OwnerBenjamin Sredni, Michael Albeckinventors
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Abstract
The present application discloses a method of treating alopecia which is based on the use of a tellurium compound such as ammonium trichloro(dioxoethylene-O,O-tellurate).
Claims5
A method for treating male pattern baldness which comprises administering to a patient afflicted with male pattern baldness an effective amount of a tellurium compound of the formula:
- or
- TeO2
- or
- PhTeCl3
- or
- (C6H5)4P+(TeCl3(O2C2H4))—TeX4,
- wherein Q is Te;
- t is 1 or 0;
- u is 1 or 0;
- v is 1 or 0;
- R, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are the same or different and are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxyalkyl of 1 to 5 carbons, hydroxy, alkyl of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, halogen, haloalkyl of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, carboxy, alkylcarbonylalkyl of 2 to 10 carbons, alkanoyloxy of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, carboxyalkyl of 1 to 5 carbons atoms, acyl, amido, cyano, amidoalkyl of 1 to 5 carbons, N-monoalkylamidoalkyl of 2 to 10 carbons, N,N-dialkylamidoalkyl of 4 to 10 carbons, cyanoalkyl of 1 to 5 carbons alkoxy of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, alkoxyalkyl of 2 to 10 carbon atoms and —COR10 wherein R10 is alkyl of from 1 to 5 carbons;
- and X is halogen and complexes thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.