US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on June 2 for "Methods of preventing or treating fatty degeneration of skeletal muscle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,837, issued on June 2, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Methods of preventing or treating fatty degeneration of skeletal muscle" was invented by Erik Martinez-Hackert (Okemos, Mich.) and Monique Floer (Okemos, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a selective TGF-Beta inhibitor, such as a TGFBetaRII-Fc, are provided herein to prevent, reverse, reduce the occurrence of and/or treat fatty degeneration of skeletal muscle. Additionally, the selective TGF-Beta inhibitors may be used to inhibit fibro-adipogenic progenitor cell (FAP) differentiation i...