Patent ID: 7186704

Claim:
A method of treatment of atherosclerosis, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, stenosis, restenosis and/or in-stent-stenosis in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound, said compound selected from the group having a formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein: (i) A 1 and A 2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of CH 2 and C═O, at least one of A 1 and A 2 being CH 2 ; (ii) R 1 and R 2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl chain having 1–27 carbon atoms and wherein X is an alkyl chain having 1–24 carbon atoms, Y is selected from the group consisting of: —OH, —H, alkyl, alkoxy halogen, acetoxy and aromatic functional groups; and Z is selected from the group consisting of: and —OH, whereas R 4 is an alkyl, at least one of R 1 and R 2 being said and (iii) R 3 is selected from the group consisting of H, acyl, alkyl, phosphocholine, phosphoethanolamine, phosphoserine, phosphocardiolipin and phosphoinisitol.