Patents Assigned to Delta Pharmaceuticals
  • Compositions and methods for reducing respiratory depression and attendant side effects of mu opioid compounds
    Patent number: 5985880
    Abstract: A method of reducing, treating or preventing drug-mediated respiratory depression in an animal, incident to the administration to said animal of a respiratory depression-mediating drug, comprising administering to the animal receiving said drug an effective amount of a .delta. receptor agonist compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Delta Pharmaceuticals
    Inventors: Kwen-Jen Chang, Robert W. McNutt, Jr., Hugh O. Pettit, Michael J. Bishop