US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on Feb. 11 for "Method of promoting wound healing by inhibiting CCR3" (Colorado, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,463, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Method of promoting wound healing by inhibiting CCR3" was invented by Randle M. Gallucci (Edmond, Okla.) and Kaitlin N. Calhoun (Greeley, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a skin wound in a subject by administering at least one inhibitor of C-C chemokine receptor type-3 (CCR3) and/or at least one inhibitor of a CCR3 ligand, thereby causing increased activity of keratinocytes adjacent the skin wound, wherein epithelialization of the skin wound is promoted, and wherein the increased activity of keratinocy...