Patent 7186708 was granted and assigned to NicOx on March, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Steroidal compounds or their salts having general formula:A—B—C—NO2 are described, wherein:A=R—, wherein R is a steroidal drug radical;B=—TB—X2—TBI—, wherein TB is (CO), TBI is O, S, NH, and X2 is a bivalent bridging group; andC is a bivalent radical.