Patent ID: 7985728

Claim:
A method comprising: locally introducing a composition comprising a carrier and an apolipoprotein A-I (Apo A-I) synthetic mimetic peptide at a particular coronary region wherein the peptide has a property that renders the peptide effective in reverse cholesterol transport and is selected from the group consisting of: (i) An 18 amino acid peptide, DWFKAFYDKVAEKFKEAF (SEQ ID NO: 1); (ii) An 18 amino acid peptide, DWLKAFYDKVAEKLKEAF (SEQ ID NO: 2); (iii) A 33 amino acid peptide, PALEDLRQGLLPVLESFKVFLSALEEYTKKLNTQ (SEQ ID NO: 3); (iv) Ac-DWFKAFYDKVAEKFKEAF-NH 2 (SEQ ID NO: 4); (v) Ac-PALEDLRQGLLPVLESFKVFLSALEEYTKKLNTQ-NH 2 (SEQ ID NO: 5); (vi) Ac-FAEKFKEAVKDYFAKFWD-NH 2 (SEQ ID NO: 6); (vii) Ac-FAEKLKEAVKDYFAKLWD-NH 2 (SEQ ID NO: 7); (viii) Ac-NLKKTYEELASLFSVKFSELVPLLGQRLDELAP-NH 2 (SEQ ID NO: 8); (ix) Ac-LKLLDNWDSVTSTFSKLREQLGPALEDLRQGLL-NH 2 (SEQ ID NO: 9); and (x) Ac-PALEDLRQGLLPKLLDNWDSVTSTFSKLREQLG-NH 2 (SEQ ID NO: 10).