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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:
Feb. 21, 1989
Filed:
May. 23, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Goodchild, Worcester, MA (US);
Paul C Zamecnik, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-5 ; 424 89 ; 435-6 ; 435 29 ; 435 32 ; 514 44 ; 536 26 ; 536 27 ; 536 28 ;
Abstract
Inhibition of HTLV-III by adminstration of an oligonucleotide complementary to highly conserved regions of the HTLV-III genome necessary for HTLV-III replication and/or gene expression is described, as are oligodeoxynucleotide sequences which are complementary to those regions, methods of inhibiting HTLV-III replication and gene expression and methods of determining the presence or absence of HTLV-III virus in samples such as blood, saliva, urine and tears.