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GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMPE - News) ("Ampio" or the "Company"), a company that discovers and develops new uses for previously approved drugs and new molecular entities ("NMEs"), today announced notification of the granting of a Canadian patent with broad claims directed to: "METHOD OF USING DIKETOPIPERAZINES AND COMPOSITION CONTAINING THEM". The protected compositions contain either DA-DKP, a cyclic dipeptide diketopiperazine, which is the active ingredient of Ampion™, but also extend to many other diketopiperizines.
Dr. David Bar-Or, Ampio's Chief Scientific Officer, noted "The patent also includes claims for these compositions that target clinical treatments for inflammation and inflammatory diseases and conditions, such as disease or condition is acute respiratory distress syndrome, an allergy, arthritis, asthma, bronchitis, a cancer, a cardiovascular disease, Crohn's disease, cystic fibrosis, emphysema, endocarditis, gastritis, gastrointestinal ulceration, inflammatory bowel disease, ischemia, ischemia reperfusion, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, myocardial infarction, a neoplastic disease, nephritis, pain, pancreatitis, psoriasis, a respiratory infection, sepsis, shock or ulcerative colitis."
Dr. Bar-Or further noted "This patent complements the already extensive and robust portfolio of worldwide issued patents for Ampion™. The mechanism of action of Ampion™, an innate human biological small molecular weight compound, is unique as it not only inhibits the early activation of memory T cells but also affects an upstream event in inflammation by tightening vascular permeability among other effects".
"We believe that multiple inflammatory conditions might benefit from this biological drug" added Dr. Vaughan Clift, Ampio's Chief Regulatory Officer, "and the compa
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