Abstract: Use of soluble CD14 (sCD14) for the manufacture of a medicament for therapeutic or preventive treatment of a disease involving a chronic inflammation condition and a clinical disorder associated with insulin resistance in an animal or a human. Examples of diseases include type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, metabolic syndrome, arteriosclerotic disease, arterial hypertension and functional ovaric hyperandrogenism.
Abstract: Use of a bactericidal/permeability-increasing (BPI) protein product for the manufacture of a medicament for therapeutic or preventive treatment of a disease involving a clinical disorder associated with insulin resistance in a human.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 7, 2006
Publication date:
August 27, 2009
Applicant:
BRIDGE BIORESEARCH LIMITED
Inventors:
Jose Manuel Fernandez-Real Lemos, Wifredo Ricart Engel