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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:
Aug. 08, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eliot R Spindel, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Srinivasa R Nagalla, Portland, OR (US);
Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan, Beaverton, OR (US);
Anthony Archibong, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 12 ; 514 12 ; 514 14 ; 514 15 ;
Abstract
A method of promoting or blocking fertilization, which method includes the step of contacting sperm either at the time of sperm capacitation or at the time of egg fertilization with an effective amount of bombesin or its analog capable of stimulating or inhibiting the acrosome reaction.