US Patent Issued to Baylor College of Medicine on April 8 for "Hippo regulation of cardiac vascularity, fibrosis, and inflammation" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,704, issued on April 8, was assigned to Baylor College of Medicine (Houston).

"Hippo regulation of cardiac vascularity, fibrosis, and inflammation" was invented by James F. Martin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure encompass methods and compositions related to modulating the Hippo pathway to inhibit fibrosis and/or inflammation in a tissue and/or organ of an individual in need thereof. In specific embodiments, the disclosure concerns modulation of LATS1, LATS2, or both, such as providing to the individual an effective amount of one or more agents that increase the levels of LATS1, LATS2, or both in ...