US Patent Issued to JINAN UNIVERSITY on July 28 for "Use of Crassifolin a in preparation of drug for promoting mitophagy and treating neurodegenerative diseases" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,094, issued on July 28, was assigned to JINAN UNIVERSITY (Guangzhou, China).

"Use of Crassifolin a in preparation of drug for promoting mitophagy and treating neurodegenerative diseases" was invented by Yubo Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Fei Xiao (Guangzhou, China), Guocai Wang (Guangzhou, China), Evandro Fei Fang (Shanghai) and Junping Pan (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention is the use of Crassifolin A in promoting mitophagy and treating neurodegenerative diseases. According to the present invention, experiments show that the diterpene compound Crassifolin A can significantly increase mito...