US 7,615,230 B2
Method for decreasing sebum production
Catherine R. Kostlan, Saline, Mich. (US); Raj Neil Raheja, Ann Arbor, Mich. (US); Meera Tugnait, Ann Arbor, Mich. (US); and Kimberly Wade, Brighton, Mich. (US)
Assigned to Graceway Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Bristol, Tenn. (US)
Filed on Oct. 05, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/958,306.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/509984, filed on Oct. 09, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0079144 A1, Apr. 14, 2005
Int. Cl. A61K 8/02 (2006.01); A61K 8/00 (2006.01); A61K 31/44 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 424—401  [424/69; 424/70.1; 514/357; 514/442; 514/616] 3 Claims
 
1. A method for decreasing sebum secretion comprising the topical administration of an effective amount of N-benzyl-N′-(2,6-diisopropyl-phenyl)-N-isopropyl-malonamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to a patient in need thereof.