Patent ID: 6945247
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: A61K,A61M,A61P,C12N

Abstract:
1. A method for treating a pulmonary disorder associated with hypoxemia or smooth muscle constriction inflammation or hypoxemia and smooth muscle constriction or hypoxemia and inflammation or smooth muscle constriction and inflammation or hypoxemia and smooth muscle constriction and inflammation in the lungs in a patient having such disorder, said method comprising delivering into the lungs of said patient as a gas, a therapeutically effective amount of a compound having an NO group and having a hypoxemia relieving and smooth muscle constriction relieving or anti-inflammatory or hypoxemia relieving and smooth muscle constriction relieving and anti-inflammatory or inflammation defending effect with said NO group being bound in said compound so that it does not form NO 2 or NO x in the presence of oxygen or reactive oxygen species at body temperature.