Deactivation of urushiol and method of treatment and prevention of contact dermatitis
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of California
InventorRebecca Braslau
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Abstract
The invention herein disclosed provides for compositions, methods for synthesizing said compositions, and methods for using said compositions, wherein the compositions and methods may be used to bind to and/or deactivate a poison oak oil, such as urushiol. The compositions and methods can be used to treat and/or reduce an inflammatory reaction and/or hypersensitivity to natural compounds found in poison oak, poison ivy, poison sumac, mango, lac tree, cashew nut, and Asian lacquer.
Claims6
A method for deactivating a catechol in a sample, the method comprising the steps of (i) contacting an oxidant and a catalyst with the sample, wherein the catalyst is a nitroxide, (ii) allowing the oxidant to react with the catechol in the sample thereby creating an orthoquinone;
- (iii) allowing the orthoquinone to react with the oxidant thereby generating a polymer;
- the method resulting in deactivating the catechol in the sample.
A method for deactivating a catechol in a sample, the method comprising the steps of (i) contacting an oxidant and a catalyst with the sample, wherein the catalyst is a nitroxide precursor, (ii) allowing the oxidant to react with the catechol in the sample thereby creating an orthoquinone;
- (iii) allowing the orthoquinone to react with the oxidant thereby generating a polymer;
- the method resulting in deactivating the catechol in the sample.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.