Patent ID: 7037665

Claim:
A method for preparing a composition which comprises: (a) determining whether a chemical compound is a human SNORF36a receptor agonist which comprises contacting cells transfected with and expressing DNA encoding the human SNORF36a receptor with the compound under conditions permitting the activation of the human SNORF36a receptor, and detecting any increase in human SNORF36a receptor activity, so as to thereby determine whether the compound is a human SNORF36a receptor agonist; (b) recovering said compound free of any human SNORF36a receptor; and (c) admixing said compound with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; wherein the human SNORF36a receptor has an amino acid sequence identical to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2 or that encoded by plasmid pcDNA3.1-hSNORF36a-f (ATCC Accession No. 203977).