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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. 30, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael E Lewis, West Chester, PA (US);
Stuart C Apfel, West Hempstead, NY (US);
John A Kessler, New Canaan, CT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 12 ; 514-2 ; 514 21 ;
Abstract
The invention features a method of preventing or treating a peripheral neuropathy that results from a systemic disease (e.g., post-polio syndrome) or a toxic agent (e.g., a chemotherapeutic agent), and that is not caused by an abnormal insulin level in a mammal. The method involves administering a neuropathy-reducing amount of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) or insulin-like growth factor-III (IGF-III) to the mammal.