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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. 06, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Toshiyuki Yoneda, San Antonio, TX (US);
Gregory R Mundy, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
Xenotech Incorporated, Foster City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4241451 ; 4241581 ; 4241301 ; 514885 ;
Abstract
Materials immunoreactive with parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH-rp) are used in the invention method to prevent and treat metastasis and cancer cell growth in bone as well as osteolysis and symptomatic sequelae thereof. Humanized antibodies are included in the invention for application of the invention method to human subjects.