US Patent Issued to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY on July 21 for "Method to increase systemic blood pressure in shock" (District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,757, issued on July 21, was assigned to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington).

"Method to increase systemic blood pressure in shock" was invented by Gerard P. Ahern (Washington) and Thieu X. Phan (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of stabilizing blood pressure in severe sepsis/septic shock and other types of distributive shock using TRPV1 agonists. Also provided are pharmaceutical formulations for increasing blood pressure in septic shock the formulation including at least one TRPV1 agonist in a dosage form for parenteral administration, wherein the TRPV1 agonist is selected from capsaicin, daphnane T...