摘要 |
The present invention features methods of treating a reproductive disorder such as central precocious puberty, polycystic ovarian disease, endometriosis, irregular periods, or uterine fibroids, a proliferative disorder involving a sex steroid dependent cancer such as a prostate cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer, or testicular cancer, or ovarian cancer in a patient by administering an agonist of GPR54 or a compound that continuously interferes with a biological activity of a GPR54 polypeptide and decreases this biological activity or by administering a compound that continuously occupies a GPR54 polypeptide and decreases a biological activity of the GPR54 polypeptide. Such compounds may also be used in methods of contraception and in the preparation for in vitro fertilization.
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申请人 |
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION;THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.;UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION;CROWLEY, WILLIAM, F., JR.;SEMINARA, STEPHANIE, B.;PLANT, TONY, M.;KAISER, URSULA, B.;KUOHUNG, WENDY;STEIN, ROSS, L.;GLICKSMAN, MARCIE;CUNY, GREGORY, D. |
发明人 |
CROWLEY, WILLIAM, F., JR.;SEMINARA, STEPHANIE, B.;PLANT, TONY, M.;KAISER, URSULA, B.;KUOHUNG, WENDY;STEIN, ROSS, L.;GLICKSMAN, MARCIE;CUNY, GREGORY, D. |