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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:
May. 16, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jane B Trepel, Bethesda, MD (US);
Wei-Gang Fang, Bethesda, MD (US);
Farzaneh Pirnia, Potomac, MD (US);
Charles E Myers, Jr, Rockville, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424422 ; 514 47 ; 514 48 ;
Abstract
The instant invention is directed to the use of a pharmaceutical composition containing an effective amount of adenosine or an adenosine analog or derivative as an agent useful in the treatment of hormone-independent cancers, such as prostate cancer. The invention is also directed to diagnostic uses of these compounds to determine effective treatment regimes for specific tumors, a process for screening for new, therapeutically useful analogs of these compounds, and the use of these compounds in facilitating the extraction of intracellular components.