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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. 05, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Marti Jett-Tilton, Washington, DC (US);
Assignee:
Houston Biotechnology Incorporated, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352402 ; 4352351 ; 424450 ; 514 78 ; 436829 ;
Abstract
Phosphatides are shown to have antiviral activity, where the phosphatides are characterized by having a polyunsaturated fatty acid at the sn2 position. By contacting cells susceptible to or infected with a virus, particularly a retrovirus, the proliferation of the virus is substantially inhibited.