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AssigneesThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
InventorsDavid M. Stern, Ann Marie Schmidt, Steven Marso, Eric Topol, A. Michael Lincoff
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This invention provides for a method for inhibiting new tissue growth in blood vessels in a subject, wherein the subject experienced blood vessel injury, which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of an inhibitor of receptor for advanced glycation endproduct (RAGE) so as to inhibit new tissue growth in the subject's blood vessels. The invention also provides for method for inhibiting neointimal formation in blood vessels in a subject, wherein the subject experienced blood vessel injury, which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of an inhibitor of receptor for advanced glycation endproduct (RAGE) so as to inhibit neointimal formation in the subject's blood vessels. The invention also provides a method for preventing exaggerated restenosis in a diabetic subject which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of an inhibitor of receptor for advanced glycation endproduct (RAGE) so as to prevent exaggerated restenosis in the subject.
A method for treating a diabetic subject who has (a) undergone an angioplasty procedure comprising placing an angioplasty balloon in a blood vessel and (b) experienced an injury in the blood vessel which comprises administering to the subject a soluble fragment of a receptor for advanced glycation endproduct polypeptide, which fragment (a) includes an amyloid-beta peptide-binding portion of receptor for advanced glycation endproduct polypeptide and (b) is coupled to an antibody, in an amount effective to reduce smooth muscle proliferation and migration in the subject's blood vessels, so as to thereby treat the subject, wherein the sequence of the receptor for advanced glycation endproduct polypeptide is set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 3, or 5, and wherein the blood vessel is a carotid artery.
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