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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:
Jul. 07, 1992
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Theodore J Hahn, Encino, CA (US);
Christopher G Rudman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 12 ; 514 21 ;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for at least partially restoring normal growth, weight gain, and lean body mass of a mammal afflicted with glucocorticoid excess. This method comprises the administration to the mammal of an effective amount of IGF-I. Preferably, the mammal is a child and the IGF-I is native-sequence or brain IGF-I.