Donald Landry;Patricia F. Ducy;Gerard Karsenty;Shi-Xian Deng;Vijay Kumar Yadav
发明人:
Gerard Karsenty,Patricia F. Ducy,Vijay Kumar Yadav,Donald Landry,Shi-Xian Deng
申请号:
US13128987
公开号:
US08614222B2
申请日:
2009.11.13
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要:
The present invention provides methods and therapeutic agents for lowering or increasing serum serotonin levels in a patient in order to increase or decrease bone mass, respectively. In preferred embodiments, the patient is known to have, or to be at risk for, a low bone mass disease such as osteoporosis and the agents are TPH1 inhibitors or serotonin receptor antagonists.