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US 7,033,997 B2Granted
Use of natriuretic peptides as antibiotically active substances for the treatment of bacterial infections
AssigneePharis Biotec GmbH
InventorsWolf-Georg Forssmann, Alexander Krause, Erik Maronde
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Abstract
The present invention relates to antibiotically active natriuretic peptides for use as antibiotically active preparations prepared using biotechnological and recombinant methods and chemical synthesis. The antibiotically active peptides are referred to as natriubiotics. After chemical peptide synthesis, these natriubiotics can be used as human or veterinary medicaments in a suitable galenic formulation or as food additives.
Claims9
A method of using a natriuretic peptide as an antibacterial agent comprising
- administering an effective amount of the natriuretic peptide to a patient in need thereof for treatment of pathogenically altered bacterial flora in the gastrointestinal tract, urogenital system, or the skin or
- adding the natriuretic peptide to food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.