Patent ID: 8198327

Claim:
A method of stimulation of bone growth, bone mass, bone repair or prevention of bone loss, the method comprising: administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of at least one fatty acid amide of an amino acid, including a stereoisomer and a salt thereof, wherein the fatty acid moiety is optionally substituted on at least one of the α- or β-positions of the fatty acid moiety by at least one group selected from the group consisting of —C 1 -C 6 alkyl, —OH, —OR 1 , —SH and —SR 2 , and the amino acid moiety being selected from the group consisting of alanine, asparagine, aspartate, cysteine, glutamate, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine, tyrosine, arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine, the amino acid moiety being optionally substituted at the α-position of the amino acid moiety by at least one group selected the group consisting of from —C 1 -C 6 alkyl, —OH and —OR 3 , R 1 , R 2 , R 3 are each independently —C 1 -C 6 alkyl, provided that at least one of the fatty acid moiety and the amino acid moiety is substituted.