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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. 18, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Teruo Nishida, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo, JP;
Assignees:
Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 852 ; 530351 ;
Abstract
A method for the healing of wounds caused by corneal injury as the result of, for example, corneal ulcer, corneal epithelial defect, keratitis, xerophthalmia, which comprises locally administering to a patient in need thereof an effective wound healing amount of interleukin-6, either alone, or in combination with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable ophthalmic excipients.