US Patent Issued to DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 24 for "Composition for preventing or treating brain-nervous system diseases comprising rita or derivatives thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,344, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daegu, South Korea).

"Composition for preventing or treating brain-nervous system diseases comprising rita or derivatives thereof" was invented by Seong Woon Yu (Daegu, South Korea) and Seong Hee Jung (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating central nerve system diseases, and by means of a compound according to one aspect, by inhibiting the death of adult hippocampal neural stem cells caused by stress and preserving the number of neural stem cells, the composi...