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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
David H Coy, New Orleans, LA (US);
Eugene A Woltering, Kenner, LA (US);
M Sue O'Dorisio, Columbus, OH (US);
Thomas M O'Dorisio, Columbus, OH (US);
William A Murphy, Slidell, LA (US);
The Louisiana State University Medical Center Foundation, New Orleans, LA (US);
Children's Hospital, Inc., Columbus, OH (US);
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, New Orleans, LA (US);
The Ohio State University Research Foundation, Columbus, OH (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases associated with aberrant expression of a somatostatin receptor (e.g., cancer) or with increased production of a factor regulatable by somatostatin (e.g., acromegaly). The compounds of the invention are of the general formulae: ##STR1## wherein P is a somatostatin peptide analog which binds to a somatostatin receptor,