Patent ID: 6436948
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: A61K

Abstract:
A method of treating psoriasis in a patient comprising exposing skin of said patient suffering from such a condition to an effective amount of a compound according to the structure: wherein R is H or F and R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an acyl group in which the non-carbonyl moiety of the ester group is a straight, branched or cyclic C1 to C18 alkyl, alkaryl, aralkyl, alkoxyalkyl or an amino acid group, a sulfonate ester, a monophosphate group, diphosphate group, triphosphate group and monophosphate ester, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, optionally in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, with the proviso that R1 and R2 are not both H.