US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on March 31 for "Enantiomer selective action on neurotransmission" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,087, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Enantiomer selective action on neurotransmission" was invented by Thomas J. Montine (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Adam Wawro (Jozefoslaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of use, pharmaceutical formulations, and labeled versions of compounds are provided of compounds that penetrate the blood-brain barrier and influence the balance of excitatory versus inhibitory neurotransmission by enantiomer selective modulation of glutamate and GABA metabolism. In some embodiments, a glutamatergic false neurotransmit...