Patents by Inventor Joyce DeLeo

Joyce DeLeo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for preventing or treating neuropathic pain
    Publication number: 20070244066
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for preventing or treating neuropathic pain. Using an agent to decrease the expression or activity of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), behavioral hypersensitivity is attenuated thereby preventing or treating neuropathic pain in a subject in need of such treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Joyce DeLeo, Flobert Tanga
  • Compositions and method for enhancing the therapeutic activity of opioids in treatment of pain
    Publication number: 20050282832
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for inhibiting opioid tolerance and opioid withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventor: Joyce DeLeo
  • Method of preventing or treating pain
    Publication number: 20050158318
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating pain. Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) antibodies or binding fragments thereof are used to prevent or reduce behavioral hypersensitivity associated with pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventor: Joyce DeLeo