Patent ID: 9198900
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: A61K,C12Q,G01N

Abstract:
1. A method of preventing and/or treating peritoneal injury and/or improving peritoneal membrane function comprising administering an effective amount of an inhibitor of the JAK/STAT pathway to a subject who is at risk of peritoneal injury and/or has at least one symptom or sign of peritoneal injury and/or of diminished peritoneal membrane function, wherein the effective amount is an amount sufficient to reduce the subject's risk of peritoneal injury and/or mitigate the subject's at least one symptom or sign of peritoneal injury and/or improve peritoneal membrane function, wherein the subject is not one who is being administered an inhibitor of the JAK/STAT pathway to treat or prevent rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, psoriasis, polycythemia vera, essential thrombocytosis, diabetic kidney disease, or myelofibrosis.