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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. 20, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
David H Lynch, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Assignee:
Immunex Corporation, Seattle, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 / ; 4352402 ; 435 701 ; 424 852 ; 424534 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed an immunotherapy method for treating an individual with cancer or a viral infection comprising obtaining lymphoid cells previously exposed to a specific antigen, culturing the lymphoid cells ex vivo in a culture medium containing an effective amount of an IL-7 polypeptide or a functional derivative thereof to induce CTL activity in the lymphoid cells and administering the lymphoid cells having CTL activity for cells displaying the specific antigen to an individual.