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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Irving H Leopold, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424145 ;
Abstract
Low serum zinc concentrations in humans have been associated with multiple sclerosis in some patients, particularly those patients under 50 years of age. Increasing the concentration of serum zinc in such patients has been found to lower the number of, or decrease the severity of recurrent attacks and/or improve neurologic function in some patients.