Abstract: It has been surprisingly discovered that administration of nitrite to subjects causes a reduction in blood pressure and an increase in blood flow to tissues. The effect is particularly beneficial, for example, to tissues in regions of low oxygen tension. This discovery provides useful treatments to regulate a subject's blood pressure and blood flow, for example, by the administration of nitrite salts. Provided herein are methods of administering a pharmaceutically-acceptable nitrite salt to a subject, for treating, preventing or ameliorating a condition selected from: (a) ischemia-reperfusion injury (e.g., hepatic or cardiac or brain ischemia-reperfusion injury); (b) pulmonary hypertension (e.g., neonatal pulmonary hypertension); or (c) cerebral artery vasospasm.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 5, 2015
Publication date:
May 7, 2015
Applicants:
The Government of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of, The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State Univer and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Acting t, The UAB Research Foundation, Loma Linda University, Wake Forest University
Inventors:
Mark T. Gladwin, Alan N. Schechter, David J. Lefer, Rakesh P. Patel, Christian J. Hunter, Gordon G. Power, Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, Ryszard Marek Pluta, Edward H. Oldfield, Richard O. Cannon, III