Patentanmeldung geht es um CPT-1. Dieses Enzym spielte hier früher schon einmal eine Rolle. Vor 10 Jahren hatte Medigene als großen Hoffnungsträger das Medikament Etomoxir gegen Herzerkrankungen in der Klinik (P2) . In 2002 wurde das Projekt plötzlich wg.Nebenwirkungen und Erfolglosigkeit eingestellt. Aktienkurs rauschte nach unten http://www.google.de/...=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a Jetzt scheinen sie es auf anderem Gebiet wieder ausgegraben zu haben. Aber eben das wollte ich erstmal bei der IR genauer erfragen... - Aus der Patentanmeldung; In the United States, more than 50 million adults suffer from diseases in which mitochondrial dysfunction is involved and it is estimated that of the 4 million children born in the U.S. each year, up to 4000 develop mitochondrial diseases. To date, there is no therapy for mitochondrial diseases. Accordingly, it is the problem of the present invention to provide therapeutic approaches and pharmaceutical compositions which are useful in the prevention and/or treatment of diseases related to mitochondrial dysfunction. The present invention is based on the unexpected finding that the inhibition of the oxidation of fatty acids elicits a positive effect on cellular function due to the reduction of oxidative stress to mitochondria. -- Mitochondrial Dysfunction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_disease -- Nochmal aus der Patentanmeldung: Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of at least one agent inhibiting the fatty acid oxidation in an organism for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of a disease related to mitochondrial dysfunction. Preferably, the organism is a human being. Particularly, the agent inhibiting the fatty acid oxidation is a compound which affects the expression and/or activity of CPT-1. Respective compounds, which are suitable for this purpose, are the arylalkyl- or aryloxyalkyl-substituted oxirane carboxylic acids of the formula land the derivatives thereof set forth above, particularly 2-6-(4-chlorophenoxy) hexyp-oxirane-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (Etomoxir), 2-(6-(4-difluoromethoxyphenoxy) hexyl)-oxirane-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester, 2-(5-(4-difluoromethoxyphenoxy) pentyl)-oxirane-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester, and 2-(5-(4-acetylphenoxy) pentyl)-oxirane-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester, Etomoxir being especially to preferred.
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